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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What makes the boy feel distinctly uncomfortable in Chapter 1?
(a) The book he reads in the dark.
(b) What he finds in his sister's wardrobe.
(c) His mother's depression.
(d) His sympathy for the Protestant police.

5. What happens to Billy Mahon?
(a) He is pushed off the bridge.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is framed for murder.
(d) He is robbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In June 1948, what does the boy witness?

2. Which of the boy's relatives dies in October 1949?

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

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

5. After his parents die, Eddie leaves. Where does everyone think he went?

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