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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who teaches the boy about sex?
(a) Father Nugent.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) Brother Regan.

2. In 1949, the police arrive at the boy's house in search of what?
(a) A gun.
(b) A murder suspect.
(c) Stolen goods.
(d) A missing child.

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

4. After the boy's mother develops depression, what does she begin to have visions of?
(a) Fire.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Death.
(d) Ghosts.

5. Where are the boy's father's sisters sent to live after the death of their parents?
(a) Their grandfather.
(b) Their mother's sister.
(c) Their father's brother.
(d) Their brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the boy's mother after she stops taking the medicine?

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

3. What information about the family secret does the boy know in Chapter 3 that his parents do not know?

4. How do the boy's father's parents die?

5. What happened to the boy's sister, Una, in 1948?

(see the answer key)

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