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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a specific characteristic of Brigid's behavior after the children disappear?
(a) She skips wherever she goes.
(b) She pretends the children have never left.
(c) She sings the children's song once a year.
(d) She never leaves her house.

2. Where does the boy's father work?
(a) The police station.
(b) The distillery.
(c) The naval base.
(d) The docks.

3. According to the local belief his father told the boy, who gathers at the Field of the Disappeared at Christmas and other festivals?
(a) The souls of children who died at a young age.
(b) The souls of those who have not had a Christian burial.
(c) The souls of orphans.
(d) The souls of those who were murdered.

4. In Chapter 1, why doesn't the boy's mother want him to cross by the window at the top of the stairs?
(a) Rain is pouring in from the open window.
(b) She senses a ghost nearby.
(c) The window is broken and glass shards cover the floor.
(d) Someone outside will see him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people believe lay below the ruins of Grianan?

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

3. In what year does the novel begin?

4. In Chapter 2, the boy remembers being trapped where?

5. The famous shoot-out in 1922 was between which two groups of people?

(see the answer key)

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