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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event is introduced at the local community hall?
(a) Job fairs.
(b) Social evenings with music.
(c) Dinner gatherings.
(d) Textiles classes.

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

3. What happens to the boy's mother after she stops taking the medicine?
(a) She loses her memory.
(b) She becomes suicidal.
(c) She becomes healthier.
(d) Her state of mind improves.

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

5. What does the boy's mother do with the flower he gives her in Chapter 6?
(a) She throws it away.
(b) She puts it in a vase in the window.
(c) She destroys it.
(d) She eats it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information does Katie have over her sister?

2. When do the boy's parents meet?

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

4. What does the boy write down in the exercise book?

5. What eventually happens to Danno?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the boy believe about his loyalties to his parents as he sets off to college?

2. Why does Sergeant Burke say he beat up Frank and why does he apologize for it?

3. Why does Katie's family refuse to attend Meave's wedding?

4. The boy's mother is saddened throughout the entire novel, but why does her depression set in after her grandfather dies?

5. What does the boy's mother say that upsets Katie?

6. Why is the boy again upset with his mother at the end of Chapter 5?

7. What happens to Jimmy and Claire?

8. What does the boy mean when he says he has become the "plague himself" by wanting to know what had "plagued her"?

9. How does the boy conclude that it was his mother who tipped off McIlhenny?

10. Why does the boy's mother begin to treat him unkindly?

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