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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Episode 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does private Gar quote Edmund Burke’s lines, “It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France…at Versailles” (12)?
(a) Private Gar has studied Burke.
(b) Private Gar wishes to see the queen of France.
(c) Private Gar is warning public Gar against getting caught up in memories.
(d) Private Gar is fond of Burke.

2. What is SB’s question to Gar when he comes in for tea?
(a) He asks if Gar wants to change his plans.
(b) He asks where Madge was.
(c) He asks how much Gar has to be paid.
(d) He asks how many coils of barbed wire had come in the mail van.

3. What does Boyle mean when he advises Gar to be one hundred percent American?
(a) He asks Gar to not look back at his past.
(b) He wants Gar to become an American citizen.
(c) He wants Gar to return an American.
(d) He wants Gar to learn American fads.

4. What does public Gar mean when he says “he got ten minutes’ overtime out of my hide” (2)?
(a) SB has been talking to Gar for more than ten minutes.
(b) Gar is in hiding.
(c) SB has made Gar work 10 minutes more.
(d) SB worked ten minutes more.

5. What is Madge doing when the play opens?
(a) She is talking to SB.
(b) She is visiting her niece.
(c) She is laying the table for tea.
(d) She is cleaning Gar's shirts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Boyle's worry?

2. What is in the suitcase Madge brings in?

3. What do private and public Gar do together after Madge leaves in Episode 1?

4. What, according to private Gar, is the difference between Ireland and the United States?

5. Who are the Gallagher girls?

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