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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?
(a) The rebellion of 1798.
(b) The famine of 1740.
(c) The black death of 1348.
(d) The shootout of 1922.

2. In June 1948, what does the boy witness?
(a) His father leave town.
(b) His mother attempt suicide.
(c) The house burn down.
(d) The death of a young boy.

3. The famous shoot-out in 1922 was between which two groups of people?
(a) The IRA and the police.
(b) The boy's uncles and the IRA.
(c) The police and the boy's family.
(d) The IRA and the boy's family.

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

5. What makes the boy feel distinctly uncomfortable in Chapter 1?
(a) His mother's depression.
(b) His sympathy for the Protestant police.
(c) The book he reads in the dark.
(d) What he finds in his sister's wardrobe.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the title of the novel get its name?

2. Which two characters are introduced first at the beginning of the novel?

3. In Chapter 1, what causes the boy's mother to become inconsolable?

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

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

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