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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Soldier ask Teresa to do?
(a) Stay.
(b) Leave.
(c) Bring him his dinner.
(d) Never come back.

2. What does Teresa do when she finds out that the Officer never gave the Soldier the cigarettes she brought?
(a) She curses.
(b) She goes to get him cigarettes.
(c) She cries.
(d) She argues with the Officer.

3. What story does Teresa tell?
(a) A story of when she became an orphan.
(b) A story of when she was a girl in the convent.
(c) A story of when she became an Irishwoman.
(d) A story of when she first moved to the boarding house.

4. What does the Officer think Meg is there to do?
(a) Sing a song.
(b) Have sex with the Soldier.
(c) Cook breakfast.
(d) Clean the room.

5. What does Princess Grace do as the Soldier and Miss Gilchrist argue over who he should pay attention to?
(a) She leaves, with all of the prostitutes following her.
(b) She sings a song about love and devotion.
(c) She leads the prostitutes in a raunchy song about how they are queer and just the same as anybody else.
(d) She dances around the room.

6. When Teresa says she was just dusting, what does Meg say?
(a) She also was just dusting.
(b) Teresa did nothing wrong.
(c) Teresa is a sinner.
(d) She is shocked.

7. When Meg is finished, what is Pat's comment?
(a) The song was beautiful.
(b) Is she done torturing them.
(c) The author of the play should have sung the song.
(d) Can she sing a more optimistic tune.

8. Describe the song the Soldier sings.
(a) It is an old Irish tune.
(b) It is an ironic one about how happy he is to be British.
(c) It is a song he wrote.
(d) It is an American rock and roll song.

9. What does the Soldier try to convince Meg to ask the Officer?
(a) If he will be freed.
(b) When he will be executed.
(c) Why he was kidnapped.
(d) When breakfast will be.

10. As Miss Gilchrist takes a drink to the Soldier, what does the Volunteer do?
(a) He warns her to sit down and Pat says neither she nor Meg has the right to comment on his situation.
(b) He tells her to give him the drink instead.
(c) He warns her to not get attached to the Soldier.
(d) He tells her to stay away from him.

11. When Mulleady reads some of the article aloud, what does Pat say?
(a) It should not be read to anyone.
(b) It is disgusting.
(c) It was written by an Irishman.
(d) It is a disgrace.

12. How does the Soldier reply when Pat says he needs to sing something less patriotic?
(a) He would rather not sing.
(b) He cannot think of anything else.
(c) He does not want to sing anything else.
(d) He only knows patriotic tunes.

13. The Soldier speaks flirtatiously with Teresa, saying what?
(a) He liked her dancing and that he hopes she cooked the food she brought.
(b) He hopes she is a good cook.
(c) She looks like an English maiden.
(d) He thinks she is beautiful.

14. When the Soldier describes their situation as war, about what does Meg speak angrily?
(a) She has always lived during war time.
(b) The innocents whose lives were destroyed by that war.
(c) Her parents were killed during a war.
(d) War never ends.

15. What does Teresa do when the Officer comes in?
(a) She climbs out the window.
(b) She hides behind the door.
(c) She hides under the bed.
(d) She hides in the closet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Monsewer comes in with Pat, what are they discussing?

2. What does an article in the paper say about the "the condemned soldier?"

3. What does Miss Gilchrist think about the Royal Family?

4. How do the others respond when the Soldier asks whether any of the others would let him free?

5. Pat tells a lengthy and frequently interrupted story about what?

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