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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information does Katie have over her sister?
(a) What happened to their parents.
(b) Tony left her sister to be with Katie.
(c) The details of Eddie's disappearance.
(d) Where Katie's sister's husband ran off.

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

3. After the incident with the rose bushes, the boy stays in his room for more than a day without what?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Light.
(c) A pillow.
(d) Food.

4. Why is the boys' mother upset when they return from their boat ride across the river?
(a) She didn't want the boys on the river.
(b) She didn't have enough time to prepare dinner.
(c) She knows her husband told the boys about Eddie.
(d) She didn't expect them to return so soon.

5. What is going to be built across the river?
(a) Police station.
(b) British oxygen plant.
(c) Catholic church.
(d) Private farmhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the boy find out is responsible for the murder of 1921?

2. Who is Meave?

3. Who is Billy Mahon?

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

5. Who does Larry meet on his way home from Grianan?

(see the answer key)

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