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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. Where do the foursome head to on their date?
(a) A cafe
(b) The movies
(c) The arcade
(d) A bar

2. Why is the other girl in America?
(a) Exchange student
(b) Going to school
(c) Visiting her sister
(d) Looking for a job

3. Why does Billy promise to send money?
(a) To bring Eva and her family to America
(b) To set up a restaurant
(c) To give to orphans
(d) To buy war bonds

4. What did Eva die of according to Billy's sister, Kate?
(a) Pneumonia
(b) Heart Attack
(c) Car accident
(d) Cancer

5. Who lives in the Long Island house now?
(a) Eva
(b) Dennis
(c) Billy
(d) A year round tenant

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the employment of one of the girls?

2. What does Eva send Billy when he requests shoe sizes?

3. What does Dennis' daughter agree to do with Matt?

4. Where did Billy work in addition to his main job to make some extra money?

5. Why does Dennis tell Billy he needs to go with him to the house on Long Island?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the relationship between the Irish girls and Dennis and Billy evolve?

2. What shocking news had Dennis received from Eva's sister, Mary?

3. What is the irony of Billy's alcoholism?

4. What arrangements has Dennis made to be at the Long Island house when Billy returns from Ireland in 1975?

5. What was Billy's habit of writing notes to people?

6. How does Sheila meet Daniel?

7. Explain the irony of Billy's stopping to see Dennis when he returns from Ireland.

8. How does Dennis' daughter meet Matt?

9. What is revealed about Maeve's history and character in Chapter 6?

10. What is the mood of the lunch when Dennis and his daughter take Billy after they pick him up at the train station?

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