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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Monsewer doing as he comes in?
(a) Singing a sad lament.
(b) Asking about the room being prepared for the soldier.
(c) Blowing the first few notes of his song on the bagpipes.
(d) Arguing with Meg over the dinner menu.

2. How does the story begin?
(a) The actors walk solemnly onto the stage.
(b) A narrator appears.
(c) Rock and roll music is heard.
(d) The actors dance an Irish jig.

3. What does Meg say to Mulleady's complaint?
(a) He should go buy new shirts.
(b) He can fold his own shirts next time.
(c) Stop complaining or else she will ask for the rent money he owes.
(d) She could not help it that his shirts became discolored or torn.

4. What does Pat sing?
(a) A dramatic song about the IRA.
(b) A love song to Ireland.
(c) A lament about a laughing soldier killed for the Irish cause.
(d) A humorous song about England.

5. What does the officer tell Meg and Teresa to do?
(a) Stop dancing.
(b) Leave the room.
(c) Get his room ready.
(d) Keep dancing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pat say is ready for their "visitor?"

2. What does Meg tearfully tell him?

3. 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?

4. What does the IRA officer come in and do?

5. Of what is Pat afraid, regarding the IRA's cause?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed about the boarding house?

2. How does Pat feel about the way that Meg talks to him?

3. Who does Miss Gilchrist want to leave with her? Why can this character not leave?

4. What is revealed about Teresa in this scene?

5. What happens when Mulleady asks about the shirts Meg was to have laundered?

6. What does Pat tell Teresa to do? How will he reward her? How does she respond?

7. What happens when Teresa enters the room?

8. What story does Teresa tell?

9. What does Monsewer want to do with the Soldier? To what does this lead?

10. How does Meg react when the Soldier describes their situation as war?

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