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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christy and Old Mahon end up:
(a) Fighting.
(b) Hugging.
(c) Swinging a loy at each other.
(d) Apologizing.

2. The Widow Quin almost convinces Old Mahon that:
(a) Pegeen will be his daughter-in-law.
(b) Christy is not his son.
(c) She is marrying Christy.
(d) Christy is dead.

3. The motivation for sending the girls to meet Christy is:
(a) To bring him back to the Widow Quin's house.
(b) To spy on him.
(c) The hope that he will like one of them better than Pegeen.
(d) To ask if he really is a murderer.

4. Christy responds to Pegeen with, "We're alike so" after she tells him:
(a) She can't wait to leave town.
(b) She wants to get married.
(c) She wants to marry young.
(d) She is going to kill her father.

5. Which of the following concepts best fit the play?
(a) Good versus evil.
(b) Love scorned.
(c) Stereotyping.
(d) Life or death situations.

Short Answer Questions

1. The setting change from night in Act 1 to morning in Act II has an effect on what?

2. Why does Sarah give Christy her petticoat and shawl?

3. How does Michael Flaherty say to Christy's request for his blessing?

4. Christy tells the Widow Quin:

5. One of themes of the play involves how people:

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