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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Pat say is a bluff?
(a) The British threats to kills the Irish soldier.
(b) The imprisonment of the Soldier.
(c) The article in the newspaper.
(d) The capturing of the Irish soldier.

4. What does the Officer not want on the Soldier's conscience?
(a) Guilt for making Meg work.
(b) The memory of a poorly sung song.
(c) A mortal sin.
(d) A less than satisfying meal.

5. Of what does Pat tell the Soldier he has no reason to fear?
(a) Being tortured.
(b) Dying.
(c) Being killed.
(d) Suffering.

6. How do the others respond when the Soldier asks whether any of the others would let him free?
(a) No one will free him.
(b) Teresa, alone, said she would free him.
(c) No one responds.
(d) Everyone says they would free him.

7. Why is the Irish prisoner in jail?
(a) He did nothing.
(b) He was acting as a spy.
(c) He shot a British police officer.
(d) He stole from the British government.

8. What does the Soldier do when he looks at the paper?
(a) He rejoices at seeing his name.
(b) He panics.
(c) He begins to cry.
(d) He screams.

9. What does the Soldier say about the members of the British Parliament?
(a) They are more into their own concerns and lives than anything else.
(b) They are cruel.
(c) They are heartless.
(d) They are concerned with only the British cause.

10. What does Teresa do as Pat sits on the bed?
(a) She giggles from the closet.
(b) She gasps from behind the door.
(c) She peaks through the window.
(d) She yells as the mattress sinks onto her.

11. About what does the Soldier tease Teresa?
(a) Wanting to jump out of the window.
(b) Wanting to get caught.
(c) Wanting to stay with him.
(d) Wanting to hide.

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

13. What will happen if the Irish soldier is executed?
(a) The British soldier will be shot.
(b) The British soldier will be freed.
(c) The British soldier will be tortured.
(d) The IRA will launch an attack on the British.

14. What does the Soldier say he has done wrong?
(a) He was a spy.
(b) He shot an IRA officer.
(c) He stole money from the IRA.
(d) Nothing.

15. About which soldier is the article talking?
(a) The British one.
(b) An American soldier.
(c) The Irish one.
(d) A French soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Soldier wonder about Teresa?

2. What do Princess Grace, Mulleady, and other tenants come in to do?

3. What does Meg say about killing both soldiers?

4. When Mulleady reads some of the article aloud, what does Pat say?

5. What are the marchers doing?

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