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

2. What kind of music is heard?
(a) Irish.
(b) Pop.
(c) Rock and roll.
(d) Rap.

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

4. While the Soldier is gone, what does Teresa do?
(a) She searches for him.
(b) She runs back with the cigarettes.
(c) She pours him a cup of tea.
(d) She brings him his dinner.

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

6. Pat tells a lengthy and frequently interrupted story about what?
(a) How he joined the IRA.
(b) How he became a caretaker.
(c) How he lost his leg.
(d) His life.

7. How do Meg and the other characters make jokes about the author?
(a) He is an American.
(b) He is both pro-Irish and pro-British.
(c) He is actually French.
(d) He is both anti-Irish and anti-British.

8. What do the Officer and the Volunteer do as Pat, Meg and Miss Gilchrist sit, drink, sing, and bicker over whether Pat was a good soldier in the cause of the IRA?
(a) They watch everyone.
(b) They leave to talk.
(c) They join in the party.
(d) Stand guard over the Soldier.

9. What does Monsewer remember when talking to the Soldier?
(a) His time as a soldier.
(b) Dancing Irish jigs as a child.
(c) Learning to play the bagpipes.
(d) Playing cricket as a boy.

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

11. 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 dances around the room.
(c) She sings a song about love and devotion.
(d) She leads the prostitutes in a raunchy song about how they are queer and just the same as anybody else.

12. What does an article in the paper say about the "the condemned soldier?"
(a) He will be freed.
(b) He will be a martyr.
(c) He is innocent.
(d) He is not going to be reprieved.

13. Meg appears, looking for whom?
(a) Pat.
(b) The Officer.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Princess Grace.

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

15. What does Teresa give the Soldier?
(a) A sacred medallion of the Virgin Mary.
(b) A hug.
(c) A crucifix.
(d) A Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Soldier asks for a cigarette and is told there are none, the Officer tells him he will be getting what?

2. What does Meg say about killing both soldiers?

3. About what does the Soldier tease Teresa?

4. Teresa catches the Soldier looking around the room, and at first he says he is only looking for an ashtray, but then admits what?

5. About what does Meg taunt Pat?

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