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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the infestation mentioned in Chapter 3?
(a) An abandoned house.
(b) A nearby dumping ground.
(c) The swamps.
(d) An abandoned warehouse.

2. After the boy's mother develops depression, what does she begin to have visions of?
(a) Fire.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Death.

3. In Chapter 2, the boy remembers being trapped where?
(a) In his sister's bedroom.
(b) In the church after service.
(c) In the secret passage of Grianan.
(d) In the basement of the distillery.

4. In what year does the novel begin?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1948.

5. In September 1954, the boy's teacher asks several unanswerable questions in which class?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Geography.
(c) Religion.
(d) Language.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sergeant Burke want the situation with Eddie's death cleared up?

2. How does his mother's body change after what happens to her in 1968?

3. Who is Katie?

4. Why does the boy's mother warn him to stay away from the person she warns him about?

5. Where does the boy's father work?

(see the answer key)

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