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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the boy's father when he was left in charge of the family?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 17.
(d) 21.

2. How do the boy's father's parents die?
(a) Killed at the shootout at the distillery.
(b) Old age.
(c) Fever.
(d) An accident.

3. When do the boy's parents marry?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1933.

4. Which of these statements about the local asylum is true?
(a) It has a positive turnover rate.
(b) It has a reputation for cruel treatment of patients.
(c) It has only male patients.
(d) It went under right after Eddie's disappearance.

5. Why do the boy's father's drinking binges stop between 1920 and 1926?
(a) His father found out Eddie was innocent in 1926.
(b) His father found out about Eddie being an informer in 1926.
(c) His father revealed to his wife who killed Eddie in 1926.
(d) His father found out who killed Eddie in 1926.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the incident with the rose bushes, the boy stays in his room for more than a day without what?

3. Where are the boy's father's sisters sent to live after the death of their parents?

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

5. Chapter 3 opens with the narrator talking about the neighborhood having what kind of infestation problem?

(see the answer key)

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