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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the boys' mother upset when they return from their boat ride across the river?
(a) She didn't have enough time to prepare dinner.
(b) She knows her husband told the boys about Eddie.
(c) She didn't expect them to return so soon.
(d) She didn't want the boys on the river.

2. What happens to Billy Mahon?
(a) He is robbed.
(b) He is framed for murder.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is pushed off the bridge.

3. Who is Billy Mahon?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) A priest.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A friend of the family.

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

5. What does Sergeant Burke suggest to the boy as he gives him a ride home?
(a) That Eddie was killed.
(b) That the boy's father is responsible for Eddie's disappearance.
(c) That the boy's father doesn't know what really happened to Eddie.
(d) That Eddie was involved in something dangerous before his disappearance.

6. The famous shoot-out in 1922 was between which two groups of people?
(a) The IRA and the boy's family.
(b) The IRA and the police.
(c) The police and the boy's family.
(d) The boy's uncles and the IRA.

7. Who is Katie?
(a) The boy's mother's sister.
(b) The boy's sister.
(c) The boy's father's aunt.
(d) The boy's grandmother.

8. What is the first physical change Francis and Frances encounter?
(a) They both change genders.
(b) Their voices switch.
(c) Their reflections in the mirror disappear.
(d) Their hair changes color.

9. What makes the boy feel distinctly uncomfortable in Chapter 1?
(a) The book he reads in the dark.
(b) His mother's depression.
(c) What he finds in his sister's wardrobe.
(d) His sympathy for the Protestant police.

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

11. What happens that lets the boy know his father isn't upset anymore about the rose bushes?
(a) His father comes in and kisses his head.
(b) His father smiles at him.
(c) His father tells him he understands why his son did it.
(d) His father apologizes.

12. Which two characters are introduced first at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The boy and Una, his sister.
(b) The boy and his mother.
(c) The boy and his father.
(d) The boy and Rory Hannaway.

13. Who does the boy find out is responsible for the murder of 1921?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) Neil McLaughlin.
(c) Brother Regan.
(d) A policeman.

14. What happens to both Brigid and Larry in Chapter 2?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They have lost their ability to speak.
(c) They both cannot see.
(d) They have both lost their jobs.

15. What color is the light above the graves of Francis and Frances' parents?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the title of the novel get its name?

2. Who is the real informer?

3. What causes the priest to call off Larry McLaughlin's wedding?

4. What does the boy find in the wardrobe of his sister's bedroom?

5. Which three males are attacked at the end of the chapter?

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