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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the boy piece together that his father knew the full story about Eddie being an informant?
(a) Since 1935.
(b) Since 1922.
(c) Since 1928.
(d) Since 1930.

2. In Chapter 1, why doesn't the boy's mother want him to cross by the window at the top of the stairs?
(a) Rain is pouring in from the open window.
(b) Someone outside will see him.
(c) The window is broken and glass shards cover the floor.
(d) She senses a ghost nearby.

3. From where does the title of the novel get its name?
(a) The boy's reading of his first book.
(b) The loneliness of reading alone and the boy's feeling of being alone.
(c) The confusion the boy feels by not understanding what he reads.
(d) The sadness felt by the boy after being forced to read only at night.

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

5. What does the boy's mother tell him to put in the fire?
(a) The gun.
(b) Her dress.
(c) The newspaper.
(d) Her pills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the boy to have nightmares?

2. In Chapter 2, the boy remembers being trapped where?

3. Why does Brigid think she is going mad?

4. Why is the boy punished in 1954 by the Dean?

5. For what does Sergeant Burke apologize in 1957?

(see the answer key)

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