B. Fill in the Blanks:
Q. 1. Cathleen is about ______ years old when the play begins.
(A) seventeen
(B) twenty
(C) twenty-five
(D) thirty
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 2. Michael has been missing for ______ days when the play begins.
(A) five
(B) seven
(C) nine
(D) twelve
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 3. Maurya laments that she has had ______ brave sons, along with a husband and a father-in-law, all taken away by the sea.
(A) four
(B) five
(C) six
(D) three
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 4. Donegal, where the drowned man was found, is the ______ county of Ireland.
(A) southernmost
(B) easternmost
(C) westernmost
(D) northernmost
Correct Option: (D)
Q. 5. The play opens with Cathleen asking, “Where is ______?”
(A) Bartley
(B) Michael
(C) Maurya
(D) Nora
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 6. When the play opens, Cathleen is preparing a ______ for Bartley.
(A) loaf of bread
(B) cake
(C) fish
(D) bowl of soup
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 7. The opening scene of the play presents ______ and Nora in Maurya’s kitchen.
(A) Maurya
(B) Bartley
(C) Cathleen
(D) Michael
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 8. Cathleen asks for a ______ to open the bundle brought by Nora.
(A) nail
(B) knife
(C) scissors
(D) needle
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 9. When the dead body of Patch is brought home, Maurya is in the ______.
(A) bedroom
(B) garden
(C) kitchen
(D) seashore
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 10. “It’s the life of a young man to be going on the sea” is spoken by ______.
(A) Nora
(B) Cathleen
(C) Maurya
(D) Bartley
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 11. Nora recognizes Michael’s stocking by counting the number of ______ that were left out during its knitting.
(A) four dropped stitches
(B) two black knots
(C) three missing rows
(D) five loose threads
Correct Option: (A)
Q. 12. Donegal is about ______ days’ walk from the rocks beyond.
(A) five
(B) six
(C) seven
(D) ten
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 13. Samhain mentioned in the play refers to ______.
(A) Christmas Day
(B) All Souls’ Day
(C) Good Friday
(D) Easter Sunday
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 14. According to Nora, the sea by the White Rocks is ______ bad.
(A) extremely
(B) slightly
(C) middling
(D) perfectly
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 15. Bartley says that he has eaten nothing since the ______ went up.
(A) moon
(B) tide
(C) sun
(D) wind
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 16. Bartley tells Cathleen that the pig with the black feet can be sold to the ______.
(A) young priest
(B) village fisherman
(C) jobber
(D) horse dealer
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 17. Maurya says that young men have the power of ______ round the sea.
(A) swimming
(B) floating
(C) fighting
(D) walking
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 18. Maurya says that Michael was a great ______ and fisher.
(A) sailor
(B) rider
(C) rower
(D) swimmer
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 19. Maurya describes Bartley as a ______ and cruel man.
(A) proud
(B) hard
(C) careless
(D) foolish
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 20. After Bartley’s death, the last surviving son of Maurya is ______.
(A) Michael
(B) Patch
(C) Bartley
(D) Shawn
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 21. The play “Riders to the Sea” was written by ______.
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) J. M. Synge
(C) George Bernard Shaw
(D) Oscar Wilde
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 22. “Riders to the Sea” is a one-act ______.
(A) comedy
(B) farce
(C) tragedy
(D) romance
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 23. The dramatic action of the play takes place within ______.
(A) one day
(B) two days
(C) one week
(D) one month
Correct Option: (A)
Q. 24. The occupation of Maurya’s family is mainly connected with ______.
(A) farming
(B) fishing
(C) trading
(D) weaving
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 25. The kitchen of Maurya’s cottage contains spinning-wheels, nets, oilskins and ______.
(A) fishing boats
(B) new boards
(C) wooden chairs
(D) sacks of grain
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 26. Bartley’s rope was bought in ______.
(A) Galway
(B) Donegal
(C) Connemara
(D) Dublin
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 27. The animal that Cathleen sees eating the rope is the pig with ______ feet.
(A) white
(B) brown
(C) black
(D) grey
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 28. Eamon Simon is a friend of ______.
(A) Michael
(B) Bartley
(C) the young priest
(D) Patch
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 29. The piece of bread for Bartley was rolled in a ______.
(A) paper
(B) cloth
(C) basket
(D) box
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 30. The plain stocking found in the bundle was the ______ one of the third pair.
(A) first
(B) second
(C) third
(D) fourth
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 31. Nora had put up ______ stitches while knitting Michael’s stocking.
(A) forty
(B) fifty
(C) sixty
(D) eighty
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 32. Michael’s stocking was knitted by ______.
(A) Maurya
(B) Cathleen
(C) Nora
(D) Eily
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 33. Cathleen and Nora hide Michael’s clothes in a hole in the ______.
(A) wall
(B) chimney
(C) floor
(D) roof
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 34. When Maurya returns from the spring well, she continues ______.
(A) singing
(B) praying
(C) keening
(D) laughing
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 35. Maurya sees Michael riding behind Bartley on the ______ pony.
(A) black
(B) white
(C) grey
(D) brown
Correct Option: (C)
Q. 36. When Maurya sees Michael in her vision, he is dressed in fine clothes and ______.
(A) a new hat
(B) new shoes
(C) a blue coat
(D) a red jacket
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 37. The “fearfulest thing” mentioned by Maurya is connected with the legend of ______.
(A) Saint Patrick
(B) Bride Dara
(C) King Arthur
(D) Saint Columba
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 38. Maurya asks Cathleen to call ______ to make a coffin for her.
(A) Colum
(B) Eamon
(C) Simon
(D) Shawn
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 39. Stephen and Shawn were found in the Bay of Gregory of the ______ Mouth.
(A) Silver
(B) Golden
(C) Red
(D) Black
Correct Option: (B)
Q. 40. When Patch’s body was brought home, Bartley was still a ______.
(A) child
(B) young man
(C) baby
(D) fisherman
Correct Option: (C)
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