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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pegeen is like her father in that they are both:
(a) Conniving.
(b) Kind hearted.
(c) Short.
(d) Sarcastic.

2. Act II opens with Christy performing what activity?
(a) Polishing his boots.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Polishing Pegeen's boots.
(d) Answering the door to a group of young women.

3. At the beginning of Act 1, Pegeen is complaining because:
(a) She is getting too old to find a husband.
(b) Her father is drunk.
(c) She doesn't want to be alone in the house overnight.
(d) Shawn won't remove his boots.

4. During the girls' discussion of the boots, Sara Tansey:
(a) Suggests they wait for Pegeen to return.
(b) Makes coffee.
(c) Tries the boots on and considers keeping them.
(d) Flings the door open and threatens to shoot Christy.

5. The majority of the characters' dialogues include:
(a) Fowl language.
(b) Exaggeration.
(c) Blessing the Lord.
(d) Prose.

Short Answer Questions

1. The argument between the Widow Quin and Pegeen involves:

2. When Pegeen says to Shawn, "Go on, then, to Father Reilly, and let him put you in the holy brotherhoods, and leave that lad to me," what emotion is she displaying?

3. What does Philly say he used to do for fun in the graveyard when he was a boy?

4. The character of Christy is portrayed as:

5. As Michael James meets and converses with Christy, he addresses him as:

(see the answer key)

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