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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the distillery after the shootout?
(a) It floods.
(b) It explodes.
(c) It is rebuilt.
(d) It is shutdown.

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

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

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?
(a) His father knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does anyone else.
(b) Liam knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does the boy.
(c) The boy knows more than his father knows.
(d) His father knows nothing of Eddie's disappearance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1949, the police arrive at the boy's house in search of what?

2. Who is the heroine of the novel the boy reads in the dark?

3. Chapter 3 opens with the narrator talking about the neighborhood having what kind of infestation problem?

4. After the incident with the rose bushes, the boy stays in his room for more than a day without what?

5. Which section of the library does Crazy Joe frequent?

(see the answer key)

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