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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 4 (pages 53-72).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do his mother and the stable hand react when he asks about the missing items?
(a) They act concerned about the disappearance also.
(b) They laugh at him.
(c) They never realized the items were gone.
(d) They explain where they are calmly.

2. What is ironic about Montgomery's engagement and marriage to his wife?
(a) They got married in the same church as his parents.
(b) They knew each other only briefly.
(c) They got married on the same day as her parents did.
(d) He doesn't remember ever proposing.

3. Where did Montgomery's father die?
(a) In the backyard.
(b) In the basement.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) In the large, front room.

4. What has actually happened to these missing items?
(a) They were put into a vault.
(b) His mother sold them.
(c) They were stolen in a robbery.
(d) They got burned in a fire.

5. Who was visited every time Montgomery and his father went to Dun Laoghaire when Montgomery was a child?
(a) Montgomery's aunt.
(b) Montgomery's grandmother.
(c) Montgomery's father's mistress.
(d) Montgomery's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives Montgomery a feeling of grief as he stands in his mother's kitchen?

2. What does the argument between Montgomery and his mother about the missing items bring up?

3. As Montgomery is talking to his mother at his family home he looks at his mother and notices something. What does he realize?

4. Who now has the missing items?

5. Who never went to Dun Laoghaire with Montgomery?

(see the answer key)

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