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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which part of the traditions of both Protestants and Catholics does the boy derive excitement?
(a) The dancing.
(b) The singing.
(c) The bonfires.
(d) The gathering.

2. What novel is the first book the boy has ever read?
(a) The Poor Old Woman.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The History of Ireland.
(d) Paradise Lost.

3. Who is Ena?
(a) The boy's father's sister.
(b) The boy's grandmother.
(c) The boy's mother's sister.
(d) The boy's sister.

4. What does "The Shan Van Vocht" mean?
(a) The Lovely Dark Land.
(b) The Conflict of Past.
(c) The Poor Old Woman.
(d) The Land of Poverty.

5. 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) Liam knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does the boy.
(b) The boy knows more than his father knows.
(c) His father knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does anyone else.
(d) His father knows nothing of Eddie's disappearance.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who tells the boy about the murder of 1921?

4. How does Jimmy die?

5. What is a specific characteristic of Brigid's behavior after the children disappear?

(see the answer key)

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