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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The setting change from night in Act 1 to morning in Act II has an effect on what?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Mood.
(c) Character.
(d) Tone.

2. What is Shawn's plan for Christy?
(a) To take Pegeen off his hands.
(b) To win the games.
(c) To beat fear into him.
(d) To go to America and forever leave Pegeen's life.

3. Christy tells the girls and the Widow Quin that his father wanted him to:
(a) Wed the young girl next door so that he would have a maid.
(b) Plow his four acres of potatoes without a horse.
(c) Move out.
(d) Marry an old, overweight, half blind, widow of ill repute.

4. What Christy offer the Widow Quin if she will help him win Pegeen?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Prayers that will get her to heaven at the time of her death.
(c) A path on his property that leads to the river.
(d) A job at Pegeen's once they are wed.

5. What does Christy say his father did just before Christy struck him?
(a) Punched him.
(b) Grounded him.
(c) Cursed at him.
(d) Swung a scythe at him.

6. What is Christy's reaction to his father?
(a) Afraid that he will be punished by God.
(b) Angry that he pretended to be dead.
(c) Guilty for hurting him.
(d) Embarrassed about not doing a good job.

7. When Christy comes out of the back room, the girls:
(a) Condemn him for his lack of Godly morals.
(b) Scream and run away.
(c) Welcome him and offer him food they have brought him.
(d) Tell him he should marry the Widow Quin.

8. Pegeen punishes Christy for being friendly to the girls by:
(a) Making him scrub the dishes.
(b) Telling the details of the hanging of a man who killed his da.
(c) Not speaking to him.
(d) Banishing him from her home.

9. Why does Shawn say Christy and Pegeen don't suit each other?
(a) They are too much alike.
(b) Pegeen is fickle.
(c) Christy is too short.
(d) They will be strangling each other in a score of days.

10. Which of the following characters could be described as the most impulsive?
(a) Christy Mahon
(b) Shawn Keogh
(c) Old Mahon
(d) The Widow Quin

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

12. Christy's demeanor as he tells his story can be described as which of the following?
(a) Gleeful.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Tortured.

13. Pegeen's village is located:
(a) On the coast.
(b) In the desert.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) In a valley.

14. What is the most significant plot change in Act II?
(a) The appearance of Old Mahon.
(b) The Widow Quin helping Shawn.
(c) Christy is arrested.
(d) Christy receives a new coat from Shawn.

15. What is the mood in Act II?
(a) Silly.
(b) Somber.
(c) Tense.
(d) Mysterious.

Short Answer Questions

1. The conflict that appears in Act II is:

2. When Act II opens, what is the time of day?

3. What is poteen?

4. Which of the following would not be offered in trade for a favor by the characters in the play?

5. When the village girls come to meet Christy, the one item they do not bring him is?

(see the answer keys)

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