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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Sergeant Burke suggest to the boy as he gives him a ride home?
(a) That the boy's father doesn't know what really happened to Eddie.
(b) That Eddie was involved in something dangerous before his disappearance.
(c) That Eddie was killed.
(d) That the boy's father is responsible for Eddie's disappearance.

4. Where does the boy tell his father in Chapter 2 that he would like to go?
(a) Buncrana.
(b) The Field of the Disappeared.
(c) Grianan.
(d) Donegal.

5. What is the first physical change Francis and Frances encounter?
(a) Their reflections in the mirror disappear.
(b) Their voices switch.
(c) Their hair changes color.
(d) They both change genders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the IRA gunmen protesting at the shootout at the distillery?

2. The famous shoot-out in 1922 was between which two groups of people?

3. What does the boy's grandfather reveal about Eddie in Chapter 3?

4. Why does the boy ride home with Sergeant Burke in the police car?

5. What causes the priest to call off Larry McLaughlin's wedding?

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