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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What eventually happens to Danno?
(a) He moves away.
(b) He becomes ill and dies.
(c) He returns to the military.
(d) He starts a new family.

2. To what does Father Nugent compare murder?
(a) Hating your brother.
(b) Disobeying your parents.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Sex without love.

3. Why is the boys' mother upset when they return from their boat ride across the river?
(a) She knows her husband told the boys about Eddie.
(b) She didn't expect them to return so soon.
(c) She didn't want the boys on the river.
(d) She didn't have enough time to prepare dinner.

4. When does Tony McIlhenny disappear?
(a) When Una dies.
(b) When the boy is born.
(c) When Ena dies.
(d) When Katie is pregnant.

5. From where does the title of the novel get its name?
(a) The loneliness of reading alone and the boy's feeling of being alone.
(b) The confusion the boy feels by not understanding what he reads.
(c) The sadness felt by the boy after being forced to read only at night.
(d) The boy's reading of his first book.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the boy's mother tell him to put in the fire?

4. In 1949, the police arrive at the boy's house in search of what?

5. What passages of scripture does the boy find intriguing?

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