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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main industry in the part of the country the soldiers are visiting?
(a) Steel mining.
(b) Coal mining.
(c) Diamond mining.
(d) Gold mining.

2. Who does Parson hope the soldiers will recruit?
(a) The strikers.
(b) The teenagers.
(c) The drunkards.
(d) The delinquents.

3. What does Musgrave tell his soldiers they all are?
(a) Men.
(b) Deserters.
(c) Vigilantes.
(d) Criminals.

4. Where do Attecliffe, Sparky and Hurst have to sleep?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The stables.
(c) The bar.
(d) The hallway.

5. What does Mrs. Hitchcock tell the soldiers about?
(a) Her money troubles.
(b) The strike.
(c) Annie.
(d) Her sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of gun does Attercliffe say is loaded?

2. What does the Mayor say every recruit will receive?

3. Where do Sparky, Hurst and Attercliffe wait?

4. What does the Mayor say they will try if his idea fails?

5. Who does Hurst have coming to visit him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 1, Part 1.

2. What does the Bargee tell Musgrave in Act 2, Scene 3, Part 2?

3. How does Musgrave the calm the riot?

4. What are Mrs. Hitchcock and the Parson's opinion of the strike?

5. What does Sparky say their mission is?

6. What does the fact that the Bargee refers to himself as Old Joe say about his character?

7. Why does Musgrave refuse to let the townspeople go home?

8. How does the mayor deal with the rioting?

9. What does Musgrave tell Mrs. Hitchcok about the army when she wakes him from his dream?

10. How does Musgrave deal with Sparky's death?

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