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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Charlie McCabe?
(a) An informer.
(b) A local Protestant police officer.
(c) A local post office inspector.
(d) A Catholic priest.

3. Which of these statements about the local asylum is true?
(a) It has a reputation for cruel treatment of patients.
(b) It went under right after Eddie's disappearance.
(c) It has only male patients.
(d) It has a positive turnover rate.

4. Who is Danno Bredin?
(a) Claire's father.
(b) The boy's friend.
(c) Jimmy's brother.
(d) Young man in the navy.

5. What passages of scripture does the boy find intriguing?
(a) The gospel parables.
(b) The prophecies of revelation.
(c) The ones about good and evil.
(d) The law of the Old Testament.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the IRA gunmen protesting at the shootout at the distillery?

2. During the war, when the alarms go off because of the air raids, where does the family hide?

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

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

5. What happens to the boy's mother after she stops taking the medicine?

(see the answer key)

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