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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "The Shan Van Vocht" mean?
(a) The Poor Old Woman.
(b) The Conflict of Past.
(c) The Lovely Dark Land.
(d) The Land of Poverty.

2. When the boy and his brother, Liam, are taken across the river by their father, what does his father's explanation about Eddie reveal to the boy?
(a) His father knows nothing of Eddie's disappearance.
(b) Liam knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does the boy.
(c) His father knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does anyone else.
(d) The boy knows more than his father knows.

3. Chapter 3 opens with the narrator talking about the neighborhood having what kind of infestation problem?
(a) Mice.
(b) Rats.
(c) Roaches.
(d) Bees.

4. Where does Tony McIlhenny disappear to?
(a) England.
(b) America.
(c) Poland.
(d) Denmark.

5. According to the boy's father, how long has the boy's mother known about Eddie?
(a) Since just after the boy was born.
(b) Since just before she married the boy's father.
(c) Since just after she married the boy's father.
(d) Since a few years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the boy's sister, Una, in 1948?

2. What does Jimmy do before he is found dead?

3. Who is Billy Mahon?

4. Where does the boy go with Moran in Chapter 4?

5. What does the boy realize about his mother after the onset of her depression?

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