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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what ways are the boys in the math class punished if they do not answer the questions correctly?
(a) Extra homework or caning.
(b) Extra homework or cleaning.
(c) Time out or extra homework.
(d) Cleaning or caning.

3. In Chapter 2, the boy remembers being trapped where?
(a) In the secret passage of Grianan.
(b) In the church after service.
(c) In the basement of the distillery.
(d) In his sister's bedroom.

4. How do the boy's father's parents die?
(a) Killed at the shootout at the distillery.
(b) Old age.
(c) An accident.
(d) Fever.

5. What does Crazy Joe say Larry's mysterious woman turns into?
(a) A fox.
(b) A butterfly.
(c) A bird.
(d) A deer.

Short Answer 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?

2. Why does the boy's father hit him in Chapter 3?

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

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

5. After his parents die, Eddie leaves. Where does everyone think he went?

(see the answer key)

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