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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to both Brigid and Larry in Chapter 2?
(a) They both cannot see.
(b) They have both lost their jobs.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They have lost their ability to speak.

2. Chapter 3 opens with the narrator talking about the neighborhood having what kind of infestation problem?
(a) Bees.
(b) Rats.
(c) Mice.
(d) Roaches.

3. What do the boy's parents suggest he should have done instead of involving Sergeant Burke when he was being bullied?
(a) They said he should have stood up for himself.
(b) They said he should have just taken the punches.
(c) They said he should have talked the bully out of fighting.
(d) They said he should have run away.

4. Who tells the boy's father about Eddie's killing?
(a) Ena and Bernadette.
(b) The boy's mother.
(c) Brigid.
(d) Katie.

5. An army chaplain comes to the school to talk to the boys about what?
(a) Communism.
(b) The war.
(c) The plague.
(d) Enlisting.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which part of the traditions of both Protestants and Catholics does the boy derive excitement?

2. After his mother tells him much of the story of Eddie's death at the end of Chapter 5, why is the boy still hurt?

3. When do the boy's parents marry?

4. Where do the police help McIlhenny escape to after he was tipped off to the boy's grandfather in 1926?

5. In October of 1952, where is the boy sent to live?

(see the answer key)

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