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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the story begin?
(a) Rock and roll music is heard.
(b) A narrator appears.
(c) The actors dance an Irish jig.
(d) The actors walk solemnly onto the stage.

2. Who speaks angrily to the characters?
(a) Two soldiers.
(b) Two narrators.
(c) Two prostitutes.
(d) Two caretakers.

3. Why is this person playing the bagpipes?
(a) She is practicing to play a lament for a young member of the IRA who is to be executed the following morning.
(b) He is practicing to play a lament for a young member of the IRA who is to be executed the following morning.
(c) She is a professional bagpipe player.
(d) He is a professional bagpipe player.

4. Why do Pat and the Officer go out?
(a) To get away from the others.
(b) To discuss plans for housing the prisoner.
(c) To discuss Meg and Teresa.
(d) To retrieve the prisoner.

5. When does the Soldier say those who are parted will all be brought together?
(a) When they choose peace.
(b) When they move to England.
(c) When they are destroyed by the H-bomb.
(d) When they die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ironic comment does Pat make, regarding what Monsewar has told him?

2. On what does Pat insist from the officer?

3. How does Monsewer go out after hearing this news?

4. What takes place suddenly in this story?

5. What is revealed about Meg?

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