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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the novel conclude?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1977.

2. What information does Katie have over her sister?
(a) What happened to their parents.
(b) Tony left her sister to be with Katie.
(c) Where Katie's sister's husband ran off.
(d) The details of Eddie's disappearance.

3. Where does Jimmy go to work for several years?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) America.

4. Upon what does the Anglican army chaplain say communism is based?
(a) Hate.
(b) Greed.
(c) Pacifism.
(d) Atheism.

5. What does the boy conclude about his mother during Chapter 5?
(a) She was always insane.
(b) She didn't really like Tony.
(c) She always knew about Eddie's death.
(d) She always knew McIlhenny was an informer.

6. What does the boy write down in the exercise book?
(a) An essay for school.
(b) The details of Eddie's death.
(c) The story of Brigid.
(d) An apology letter.

7. When the boy encounters Crazy Joe in Chapter 5, what does Crazy Joe ask him to do?
(a) Sing him some songs.
(b) Show him the way to the park.
(c) Tell him about Eddie.
(d) Walk him to the library.

8. What does Crazy Joe reveal to the boy?
(a) He saw McIlhenny get out of the Sergeant's car in July 1926.
(b) He knows who tipped off McIlhenny.
(c) He knows why Larry has stopped talking.
(d) He saw Eddie die.

9. Why does the boy's mother warn him to stay away from the person she warns him about?
(a) She's afraid the person will harm the boy.
(b) She's afraid the person will reveal too much.
(c) She's afraid the person will find out too much.
(d) She's afraid the person will tell her husband about Eddie's disappearance.

10. Who does Larry meet on his way home from Grianan?
(a) The boy's grandfather.
(b) Sergeant Burke.
(c) Crazy Joe.
(d) The devil-woman.

11. Which character dies in 1959?
(a) Crazy Joe.
(b) Katie McIlhenny.
(c) Sergeant Burke.
(d) Tony McIlhenny.

12. Who is Charlie McCabe?
(a) A local post office inspector.
(b) A local Protestant police officer.
(c) A Catholic priest.
(d) An informer.

13. In what year does the boy enter university?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1961.

14. When do the boy's parents marry?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1930.

15. 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. When Danno returns home, what does he find?

2. Who is Jimmy from Chapter 4?

3. When Sergeant Burke comes to talk to the boy's mother, what does he reveal as his reason for beating her husband?

4. What language does the boy use to his advantage because his parents do not understand it?

5. By the end of Chapter 6, how many of the boy's parents' children live at home?

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