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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the local belief his father told the boy, who gathers at the Field of the Disappeared at Christmas and other festivals?
(a) The souls of those who were murdered.
(b) The souls of children who died at a young age.
(c) The souls of those who have not had a Christian burial.
(d) The souls of orphans.

2. What do the boy's parents suggest he should have done instead of involving Sergeant Burke when he was being bullied?
(a) They said he should have talked the bully out of fighting.
(b) They said he should have run away.
(c) They said he should have just taken the punches.
(d) They said he should have stood up for himself.

3. In what year does the novel begin?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1948.

4. Who tells the boy that some families are devil-haunted?
(a) Bernadette.
(b) Katie.
(c) Brigid.
(d) Frances.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the boy's father's sisters sent to live after the death of their parents?

2. How do the boy's father's parents die?

3. What is going to be built across the river?

4. What does the boy try to do after his talk with Sergeant Burke in Chapter 3?

5. Who is Meave?

(see the answer key)

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