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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Madge bring in from the scullery in Episode 1?
(a) She brings some cooking pans.
(b) She brings some books.
(c) She brings in an old suitcase.
(d) She brings some photos.

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

3. Who are the Gallagher girls?
(a) They are Lizzy and Maire.
(b) They are Katie and her sister.
(c) They are Maire, Lizzy, Una, Agnes and Rose.
(d) They are Madge and her niece.

4. In the flashback with Katie, why does Gar not do as he is asked by Katie?
(a) He is afraid.
(b) He changes his mind.
(c) He wants to speak with SB first.
(d) He believes that Katie’s marriage to Francis is fixed.

5. What was Gar’s and Katie’s plan?
(a) They planned to elope together.
(b) They planned to get married at once.
(c) They planned to get SB to support their decision.
(d) They planned to get engaged at Christmas and marry at Easter.

6. What is Master Boyle’s advice?
(a) He asks Gar to forget Ireland.
(b) He asks Gar to return when possible.
(c) He asks Gar to remember his father
(d) He asks Gar to remember his friends in Ireland.

7. Why does Gar say that Boyle may have been his father?
(a) Boyle is a father figure to Gar.
(b) Boyle is the same age as his father.
(c) Boyle loved his mother a long time back. Had they married, Boyle would have been Gar's father.
(d) Boyle is related to Gar.

8. What were the ages of Maire and SB when they married?
(a) She was 19 and he was 20.
(b) She was 19 and he was 30.
(c) She was 19 and he was 40.
(d) She was 20 and he was 40.

9. In the flashback with Katie, what does Katie ask Gar to do?
(a) She asks him to speak to SB about their plans.
(b) She asks him to make arrangements for their wedding.
(c) She asks him to meet Francis King.
(d) She asks him to get her parents’ permission to marry the next week.

10. Why is private Gar infuriated by SB’s routine talk about work?
(a) SB does not pay him.
(b) SB asks him not to go.
(c) Gar is leaving the next morning, yet SB has nothing to say about it.
(d) SB pays him less than due.

11. Why do public and private Gar sing "Philadelpha, here I come" together after Boyle leaves, in Episode 1 (36)?
(a) It is almost time for the flight when Boyle leaves.
(b) Public Gar is caught up in emotions as Boyle leaves and as he remembers Katie. Private Gar makes him focus on the future by singing together.
(c) Boyle wants to hear the song.
(d) SB tries to stop Gar from leaving.

12. What, according to private Gar, is the difference between Ireland and the United States?
(a) One is Gar's homeland, the other is a new place.
(b) One is the land of customs and conventions and the other is one of materialism.
(c) One is Catholic, the other is Protestant.
(d) One is full of mystery, the other is not.

13. What is in the suitcase Madge brings in?
(a) There is a photo in the suitcase.
(b) There is an old newspaper in the suitcase.
(c) There is a book in the suitcase.
(d) There is an old coat in the suitcase.

14. How does Madge defend SB’s silence?
(a) She says SB will speak to Gar when he pays him his wages.
(b) She says that he is too sad to speak.
(c) She points out that Gar should speak first.
(d) She says she would ask SB.

15. What does Boyle give Gar?
(a) He gives Gar some old photographs.
(b) Boyle gives Gar a book of his poems.
(c) He gives Gar a belt.
(d) He gives Gar some money.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the flashback with Katie, what is Katie’s concern?

2. How old is Gar?

3. What does Boyle ask of Gar once he is in Philadelphia?

4. Why did Gar not go to college?

5. What is Gar's mood in the beginning of the play?

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