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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Meg tell Teresa about Monswer?
(a) He is a horrible man.
(b) He is a strange man.
(c) He is a great man.
(d) He is a spy.

2. Why can Mulleady not leave with Miss Gilchrist?
(a) His things are still in his room.
(b) He has not paid his rent.
(c) He does not want to leave.
(d) He works at the house.

3. What does Monsewer think about Irish martyrs?
(a) He hopes he will never have to be one.
(b) He would never want to be one.
(c) He would gladly be in the same position.
(d) They are fools.

4. What does Pat promise Teresa if she can keep her mouth shut?
(a) She can have whatever she wants.
(b) She can have a home there the rest of her life.
(c) She will not be put in jail.
(d) She will not be charged rent the next month.

5. What do Pat, Meg, and Monsewer discuss?
(a) The good qualities of the English.
(b) How beautiful the French language is.
(c) How strange Monsewer is.
(d) The merits of Irish versus English.

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

7. Pat has a long history of disagreements with whom?
(a) The English.
(b) The police.
(c) The French.
(d) The IRA leadership.

8. What does Teresa insist will be a shame?
(a) If the prisoner escapes.
(b) If the prisoner is a kind man.
(c) When the prisoner arrives.
(d) When the prisoner dies.

9. Why do Meg and Teresa enter the scene at this point?
(a) To make the bed ready.
(b) To speak to the Officer.
(c) To check on the Prisoner.
(d) To make sure Pat is alright.

10. Why had Teresa left a convent?
(a) She did not find herself attractive in a habit.
(b) She had fallen in love with a student priest.
(c) She had decided against becoming a nun.
(d) She fell in love with one of the nuns.

11. What does the officer do when Pat says he needs to go out to get the money before he will allow the prisoner to stay?
(a) He reaches for his gun.
(b) He shoves Pat.
(c) He leaves to get the money.
(d) He runs out the door.

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

13. How does the officer quote a leader of the IRA?
(a) A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
(b) A good man is hard to find.
(c) A noble cause must be served by noble men.
(d) A leopard cannot change its spots.

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

15. How does Monsewer go out after hearing this news?
(a) Worried.
(b) Upset.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pat comments that when he first arrived, Monsewer spoke nothing but what?

2. As the IRA officer inspects the books, what does he say?

3. What serves as a transition into the first scene?

4. As Pat comments on how pretty Teresa is, what does Meg say?

5. Of what is Monsewer the owner?

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