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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Aunt Lizzy and Uncle Conal visit Ireland?

2. What does Lizzy recall during her visit to Ireland?

3. What is the significance of the day Aunt Lizzy and Uncle Conal visited Gar?

4. Why does Ben Burton correct Aunt Lizzy?

5. Why does Gar ask his father to say something in Episode 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Aunt Lizzy say Gar will start working and where?

2. What likely makes public Gar accept Lizzy’s offer?

3. What do Gar's friends talk about in Episode 2?

4. Why does public Gar appeal to his father, asking him to “say something” (70)?

5. Why does Madge have an outburst seeing SB after Gar has left for the pub?

6. In Episode 2, when does public Gar really give vent to his frustration with his life in Ireland?

7. What, according to Lizzy, is the difference between Ireland and the United States?

8. Why does private Gar interrogate public Gar after the flashback in Episode 2?

9. How did Ben Burton help Lizzy and Con?

10. Where do public and private Gar plan to go later that night in Episode 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore the theme of escape in the play and how it applies to Gar’s wish to be away from the people in his life and his wish to leave Ireland. Take into consideration the context of Ireland in the 1960s.

Essay Topic 2

Describe how Madge’s perspective could give the plot a different structure. Take into consideration her refusal to take a position.

Essay Topic 3

Stereotypical versions of Ireland and the U.S. are expressed by several characters, including private Gar. These result in defaming one country and having unrealistic expectations of the other. How is this explored in the play?

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