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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the heroine of the novel the boy reads in the dark?
(a) Ann.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Emily.
(d) Una.

3. 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 a grave.
(d) To his father.

4. Who tells the boy about the murder of 1921?
(a) Brother Regan.
(b) Billy Mahon.
(c) Neil McLaughlin.
(d) Rory Hannaway.

5. From where does the title of the novel get its name?
(a) The confusion the boy feels by not understanding what he reads.
(b) The sadness felt by the boy after being forced to read only at night.
(c) The boy's reading of his first book.
(d) The loneliness of reading alone and the boy's feeling of being alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rory Hannaway die?

2. In June 1948, what does the boy witness?

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

4. In Chapter 1, why doesn't the boy's mother want him to cross by the window at the top of the stairs?

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

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