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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 does the word "verecund" mean?
(a) Outgoing.
(b) Boring.
(c) Humble.
(d) Intelligent.

2. Whose baby was christened in the morning of Act 1?
(a) Nellie O'Keefe's.
(b) Sarah O'Conner's.
(c) Millie Reardon's.
(d) Nellie Ruadh's.

3. How much time has passed between Act 1 and Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) A few months.
(b) Two years.
(c) A few days.
(d) Six weeks.

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

5. How many years has it been since they've had a hot summer, according to Owen in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Forty.
(d) A hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Justice of the Peace?

2. According to Doalty, there are two men up the road looking for whom in Act 2, Scene 1?

3. Where were two of the soldiers' horses were found at the bottom of the cliffs?

4. Sarah's community considers her to be which of the following?

5. What does Yolland say the private core of Ireland would always be to him, even if he lived there?

(see the answer key)

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