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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say the rivelets of sweat have traced on the mens' backs?
(a) Couples.
(b) Maps.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Oceans.

2. Who are the men staring at?
(a) The captain.
(b) Mildred.
(c) Paddy.
(d) The Yank.

3. What do the sailors say rhymes with drink?
(a) Blink.
(b) Kink.
(c) Sink.
(d) Think.

4. What gives enough light to create shadows?
(a) A light bulb.
(b) A flashlight.
(c) A gaslight.
(d) A candle.

5. What does Aunt tell Mildred she loathes?
(a) Madness.
(b) Deformity.
(c) Students.
(d) Unintelligence.

6. What does Mildred call the second engineer when he leaves?
(a) A ogre.
(b) An oaf.
(c) A poser.
(d) A nut.

7. Where does the coal stick to the men?
(a) Their nails.
(b) Their ears.
(c) Their eyes.
(d) The hair.

8. What does Paddy say the engineer was pointing at them like?
(a) A slavedriver on a plantation.
(b) A spaceman on Mars.
(c) A man in a circus.
(d) A professor in a musuem.

9. What animal does the author compare to the Yank's face?
(a) A bull.
(b) A horse.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A gorilla.

10. Who do most of the men smoke?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Joints.
(c) Cigars.
(d) Pipes.

11. What does a voice say Yank has scared Mildred out of?
(a) A year' growth.
(b) Leaving her home.
(c) Coming in to the stokers hole.
(d) Talking to the working classes.

12. What does Yank tell Paddy he is as nutty as?
(a) A nun.
(b) A bug.
(c) A cuckoo.
(d) A monk.

13. What animal do the men say the dirt will make spot on Yank like?
(a) A cougar.
(b) A zebra.
(c) A leopard.
(d) A dalmation.

14. Of what company is Mildred's father the president?
(a) Ford Motors.
(b) Gordon's Whiskey.
(c) Nazareth Steel.
(d) Macy's.

15. What does Yank say he will do to Mildred?
(a) Tear her stomach open.
(b) Wipe off her smile.
(c) Bust her face open.
(d) Rip the plum from her mouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Paddy's words do the men repeat?

2. What kind of weather does Yank tell Paddy he stands for?

3. What kind of expression does the coal dust give the men?

4. What does Yank shout at the "Belfast bum" for doing?

5. Who turns Yank to stone?

(see the answer keys)

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