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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Tony McIlhenny disappear?
(a) When Katie is pregnant.
(b) When the boy is born.
(c) When Ena dies.
(d) When Una dies.

2. In September 1954, the boy's teacher asks several unanswerable questions in which class?
(a) Language.
(b) Geography.
(c) Religion.
(d) Mathematics.

3. According to the boy's father, how long has the boy's mother known about Eddie?
(a) Since just before she married the boy's father.
(b) Since just after the boy was born.
(c) Since just after she married the boy's father.
(d) Since a few years ago.

4. What does "The Shan Van Vocht" mean?
(a) The Conflict of Past.
(b) The Lovely Dark Land.
(c) The Land of Poverty.
(d) The Poor Old Woman.

5. What is wrong about the boy taking Irene to the cinema?
(a) He doesn't have any money.
(b) She is Grenaghan's girlfriend.
(c) He forgets where the cinema is.
(d) The cinema is closed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the boy encounters Crazy Joe in Chapter 5, what does Crazy Joe ask him to do?

3. What novel is the first book the boy has ever read?

4. According to the local belief his father told the boy, who gathers at the Field of the Disappeared at Christmas and other festivals?

5. What does Katie's sister tell her that upsets her?

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