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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who teaches the boy's math class?
(a) Gildea.
(b) Regan.
(c) His father.
(d) His uncle.

2. What happens to Billy Mahon?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is robbed.
(c) He is pushed off the bridge.
(d) He is framed for murder.

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

4. What does the boy find in the wardrobe of his sister's bedroom?
(a) Money.
(b) A photo album.
(c) A flower.
(d) A gun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tony McIlhenny disappear to?

2. Who is Katie?

3. To whom is Larry McLaughlin related?

4. Who is hired to look after the two children, Francis and Frances?

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

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