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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of stone chair is hidden in the ruins of Grianan?
(a) A stool.
(b) A wishing chair.
(c) A table chair.
(d) A throne.

2. When the boy and his brother, Liam, are taken across the river by their father, what does his father's explanation about Eddie reveal to the boy?
(a) The boy knows more than his father knows.
(b) Liam knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does the boy.
(c) His father knows nothing of Eddie's disappearance.
(d) His father knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does anyone else.

3. What is going to be built across the river?
(a) Police station.
(b) Private farmhouse.
(c) Catholic church.
(d) British oxygen plant.

4. How does Rory Hannaway die?
(a) Contracted meningitis.
(b) Drowned in the river.
(c) Killed by a reversing lorry.
(d) Beaten to death by thieves.

5. What does the boy find in the wardrobe of his sister's bedroom?
(a) A flower.
(b) Money.
(c) A photo album.
(d) A gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy's father do for a living?

2. How old was the boy's father when he was left in charge of the family?

3. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?

4. In Chapter 1, why doesn't the boy's mother want him to cross by the window at the top of the stairs?

5. In Chapter 1, where does the boy's mother ask him to take flowers?

(see the answer key)

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