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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kate call vulgar language?
(a) Low-class language.
(b) Corner-boy language.
(c) Savage language.
(d) Back hill language.

2. What does Gerry's customer take from him the day before yesterday?
(a) Four Bibles.
(b) Four encyclopedias.
(c) Four gramophones.
(d) Four brochures.

3. How long does Gerry Evans think he's been away?
(a) Thirteen months.
(b) Eighteen months.
(c) A year.
(d) Six months.

4. What animals does Maggie feed?
(a) Geese.
(b) Ducks.
(c) Hens.
(d) Pigs.

5. What is the name of the village where the Mundys live?
(a) Donegal.
(b) Ryanga.
(c) Abyssinia.
(d) Ballybeg.

6. What shame does Chris bring on the family years before?
(a) She has fought for the British.
(b) She has married a Briton.
(c) She has Michael out of wedlock.
(d) She has stolen food for the family.

7. How old is Michael when this story takes place?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Thirteen.

8. What do the characters call movies?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Moving pictures.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Films.

9. What infuriates Agnes about Kate?
(a) Kate judges Gerry Evans.
(b) Kate is a gossip.
(c) Kate doesn't care about Michael.
(d) Kate doesn't care about Chris's feelings.

10. Why do the sisters stop dancing?
(a) They are embarrassed.
(b) They are worn out.
(c) Uncle Jack stops them.
(d) The radio quits.

11. What does Maggie admire about Brian McGuinness?
(a) His military bearing.
(b) His blue eyes and curly hair.
(c) His straight nose and muscular shoulders.
(d) His white hands and long eyelashes.

12. Which of the sisters dances alone?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Kate.
(c) Rose.
(d) Maggie.

13. How old Is Uncle Jack?
(a) Forty-seven.
(b) Thirty-three.
(c) Fifty-three.
(d) Twenty-five.

14. What language has Uncle Jack been speaking for twenty-five years?
(a) Ugandan.
(b) Gaelic.
(c) Swahili.
(d) English.

15. Why don't the Mundys speak of Uncle Jack when he is a chaplain for the British army?
(a) They are angry with him.
(b) They don't know where he was.
(c) They are afraid of endangering Uncle Jack.
(d) Kate is in the War of Independence against Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jack feel about the Ballybeg climate?

2. What unusual stage convention involves the boy Michael?

3. What does Chris want Michael to believe about his father?

4. Whose arrival throws the Mundy household into turmoil?

5. What is the "double blessing" Bernie O'Donnell has?

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