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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Crazy Joe reveal to the boy?
2. What does the boy say is significant because of the mother's change?
3. What is wrong about the boy taking Irene to the cinema?
4. What information does Katie have over her sister?
5. When do Eddie's parents die?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the boy's mother's interpretation of the story of Sean and the baby sock a reflection on her own relationship with Tony McIlhenny and her role in Eddie's murder?
2. Who is Danno Bredin?
3. Why does Sergeant Burke say he beat up Frank and why does he apologize for it?
4. How does his mother's inability to speak because of her stroke affect her relationship with the boy?
5. What causes the boy to realize his mother doesn't care what he reveals to anyone?
6. What does the boy mean when he says he has become the "plague himself" by wanting to know what had "plagued her"?
7. Why does the boy's mother turn hostile toward him in Chapter 6?
8. Why is Crazy Joe such a valuable character to the story of Eddie's disappearance and death?
9. What is the boy punished for by the Dean and what is his punishment?
10. Why is the boy again upset with his mother at the end of Chapter 5?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As the novel progresses, the mystery of Eddie's disappearance is pieced together by the boy narrator.
1. What does the boy learn about his family because of the family secret?
2. How has the boy's relationship with his parents changed as the secret has been revealed?
3. How has the boy's determination to find out the secret changed as the secret slowly becomes revealed?
Essay Topic 2
Which characters in the novel would be considered guides for the boy narrator? What do they teach him? Are they positive or negative mentors?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Aunt Katie and the boy's mother.
1.) Why does the boy's mother react negatively toward Katie?
2.) Compare and contrast the women's behavior toward the boy narrator.
3.) Ultimately, they both experience the loss of the same man. How does it affect each of them?
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