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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does O'Neill describe Mildred's aunt?
(a) Fun and jovial.
(b) Pompous and proud.
(c) Gentle and loving.
(d) Selfish and uncaring.

2. What word Yank uses do the men repeat?
(a) Think.
(b) Work.
(c) Fangs.
(d) Piebald.

3. What does Yank say he can breathe and swallow?
(a) Coal dust.
(b) Fossil fuels.
(c) Sea air.
(d) Smoke fumes.

4. What does Yank tell his friends to choke off?
(a) The engines.
(b) The noise.
(c) The card game.
(d) The jokes.

5. Where does scene four take place?
(a) The stoker's room.
(b) The promenade deck.
(c) The engine room.
(d) The fireman's forecastle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Long call Mildred?

2. What does Mildred tell the second engineer she dislikes?

3. What does Long say Mildred's father has a enough gold to do?

4. What does Mildred's aunt call her as Mildred walks away?

5. What does Paddy say the engineer was pointing at them like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the setting in scene four.

2. Why is Mildred's aunt against the idea of Mildred going down into the engine room?

3. Why does Yank say he is jealous of the gorilla?

4. Describe the setting in scene three.

5. How does Yank react when Mildred leaves the engine room?

6. Describe the setting in scene six.

7. Why does Yank suddenly become angry with Mildred's father?

8. What is Rodin's The Thinker?

9. What does the article accuse the IWW of trying to do?

10. What does Rodin's The Thinker represent?

(see the answer keys)

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