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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, at what time does the grandfather clock strike before it stops for good?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Nine.

2. Who is the real informer?
(a) The boy's grandfather.
(b) Larry McLaughlin.
(c) Tony McIlhenny.
(d) Crazy Joe.

3. In Chapter 1, what causes the boy's mother to become inconsolable?
(a) The boy becomes sick.
(b) Her husband leaves.
(c) She loses her job.
(d) One of her children dies.

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

5. Which two characters are introduced first at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The boy and Rory Hannaway.
(b) The boy and Una, his sister.
(c) The boy and his father.
(d) The boy and his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the boy to have nightmares?

2. Which of the boy's relatives dies in October 1949?

3. What makes the boy feel distinctly uncomfortable in Chapter 1?

4. When the boy and his brother, Liam, are taken across the river by their father, what does his father's explanation about Eddie reveal to the boy?

5. Where does the boy's father work?

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