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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Meg, Teresa and Mulleady discuss?
(a) How horrible the Officer is.
(b) How the Irish prisoner must be feeling.
(c) How the British prisoner must be feeling.
(d) How Pat could go along with this plan.

2. Who are the caretakers?
(a) Meg and Pat.
(b) Monsewer and Teresa.
(c) Meg and Teresa.
(d) Teresa and Pat.

3. What circumstances do Meg and Pat discuss?
(a) How horrible Monsewer's mother was.
(b) The manipulative circumstances of the treaty's signing.
(c) Monsewer's move to Ireland as a child.
(d) The circumstances by which they came to work at this boarding house.

4. Why does Meg feel betrayed?
(a) She wanted to meet the prisoner first.
(b) After everything she said and did to defend Mulleady when he ran away with the church funds.
(c) After all she has done for him, he turns out to be a spy.
(d) She has covered his rent before and does not want to do it again.

5. Of what is Pat afraid, regarding the IRA's cause?
(a) The British will not be able to overpower them.
(b) They will be too powerful.
(c) The will of the IRA is not strong enough.
(d) Their weapons are outdated.

6. What does Monsewer think about everyone who lives in the house?
(a) They are members of the secret police.
(b) They are all British spies.
(c) They are all rebels on the run from the British authorities.
(d) They are all prostitutes and degenarates.

7. Pat comments that when he first arrived, Monsewer spoke nothing but what?
(a) French.
(b) Spanish.
(c) German.
(d) Irish.

8. About what does Pat sing?
(a) How he wonders what life is like outside of Ireland.
(b) How he wishes he were an Irishman.
(c) How wonderful the Brits are.
(d) How strong the IRA once was.

9. What does Pat bitterly say about their house?
(a) It once housed so many noble fighters and is now little more than a brothel.
(b) It once was his and Meg's home.
(c) It once was beautiful and well-kept.
(d) It once was run properly.

10. What bad pun does Teresa make?
(a) She calls French bread, a bagette, a bagel.
(b) She calls French fries, pommes frites, pomegranate fries.
(c) She calls a French cigarette, a Gauloise, a gollywog.
(d) She calls French candy, bon bons, bonnie bons.

11. On what does Pat insist from the officer?
(a) Rent in advance.
(b) A bonus check.
(c) A letter of recommendation.
(d) An award.

12. What does Pat do when Colette takes the money?
(a) He reprimands her for being greedy.
(b) He tells her to return the money immediately.
(c) He indicates that the sailor should follow her into her room.
(d) He takes the money from her.

13. What is the IRA?
(a) Irish Republican Army.
(b) Iranian Ruling Army.
(c) Irish Regency Army.
(d) Iranian Republican Army.

14. The Officer says the prisoner will be arriving soon but what?
(a) He may not be the only one.
(b) He will be very disagreeable.
(c) They have not actually captured him yet.
(d) He is injured.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Meg react to this news about Mulleady?

2. What does the officer tell Meg and Teresa to do?

3. What do Meg and Pat say drove Monsewer half mad?

4. Why does Meg tell Teresa to stop thinking about this person's fate?

5. When he is finished, he and Meg talk further about what?

(see the answer keys)

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