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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brother Regan teach the boys at the school in December of 1948?
(a) God's love extends even to those who commit evil deeds.
(b) Only God should judge people and decide their fate.
(c) Bad things happen because people make poor choices.
(d) Action should be taken to prevent further violence.

2. What happens to the boy when the police come to search the house?
(a) He is taken to the jail for further interrogation.
(b) He is hidden in the attic by his father.
(c) He is told to leave the house so they can search it.
(d) He is beaten by the police.

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

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

5. In Chapter 1, what causes the boy's mother to become inconsolable?
(a) The boy becomes sick.
(b) She loses her job.
(c) Her husband leaves.
(d) One of her children dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of stone chair is hidden in the ruins of Grianan?

2. Where did the shoot-out of 1922 occur?

3. Where does the boy tell his father in Chapter 2 that he would like to go?

4. What key theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 1?

5. Who is the heroine of the novel the boy reads in the dark?

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