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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people believe lay below the ruins of Grianan?
(a) The souls of those who had disappeared.
(b) The souls of those who did not have a Christian burial.
(c) The ghosts of unborn children.
(d) The bodies of legendary ancient warriors.

2. In Chapter 1, where does the boy's mother ask him to take flowers?
(a) To his teacher.
(b) To a sick relative's house.
(c) To his father.
(d) To a grave.

3. Who tells the boy that some families are devil-haunted?
(a) Frances.
(b) Brigid.
(c) Katie.
(d) Bernadette.

4. Where does the boy tell his father in Chapter 2 that he would like to go?
(a) The Field of the Disappeared.
(b) Grianan.
(c) Donegal.
(d) Buncrana.

5. Where did the shoot-out of 1922 occur?
(a) In the distillery.
(b) In the church.
(c) In the streets.
(d) In the market.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?

2. Who is the hero of the novel the boy reads in the dark?

3. Where does the boy's father work?

4. Who gives a gun to the boy's father?

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

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