Reading in the Dark Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Reading in the Dark Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the boy tell his father in Chapter 2 that he would like to go?
(a) Donegal.
(b) The Field of the Disappeared.
(c) Grianan.
(d) Buncrana.

2. What key theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 1?
(a) The death of the boy's sister.
(b) The conflict between the police and the IRA.
(c) The conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants.
(d) The disappearance of the boy's uncle.

3. In Chapter 2, at what time does the grandfather clock strike before it stops for good?
(a) Nine.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Midnight.

4. Why does Brigid think she is going mad?
(a) She keeps losing things.
(b) The orphans keep changing.
(c) She sees ghosts out the window.
(d) She is losing her voice.

5. 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 more about Eddie's disappearance than does anyone else.
(b) Liam knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does the boy.
(c) His father knows nothing of Eddie's disappearance.
(d) The boy knows more than his father knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the boy's father hit him in Chapter 3?

2. In 1949, the police arrive at the boy's house in search of what?

3. Who is hired to look after the two children, Francis and Frances?

4. What happens to Billy Mahon?

5. What is the first physical change Francis and Frances encounter?

(see the answer key)

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