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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act Two, Scene One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Doalty carrying when he enters in Act 1?
(a) A surveyer pole.
(b) A baby lamb.
(c) A milk pail.
(d) Flowers.

2. Sarah's community considers her to be which of the following?
(a) Dumb.
(b) Deaf.
(c) Blind.
(d) Paralyzed.

3. Where is the new national school being built in the play?
(a) Loch an Iubhar.
(b) Carraig an Phoill.
(c) Poll na gCaorach.
(d) Cnoc na nGabhar.

4. Who translates for Captain Lancey when he comes to the school?
(a) Owen.
(b) Hugh.
(c) Michael.
(d) Manus.

5. Jimmy reads, "Ulysses went forth through the harbour and through the woodland to the place where Athene had shown him he could find the good" what?
(a) Shepherd.
(b) Magician.
(c) Warrior.
(d) Swineheard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Irish word for "black"?

2. Who comes running in looking for Manus in Act 2, Scene 1?

3. What does Owen call his father in Act 2, Scene 1 when speaking to Yolland after his father leaves?

4. Who is Hugh's younger son?

5. In what year does Yolland say his father was born in Act 2, Scene 1?

(see the answer key)

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