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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Frances and Francis do every day?
(a) Sing songs.
(b) Put flowers on their parents' graves.
(c) Play in the Field of the Disappeared.
(d) Put on costumes.

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

3. Why do the boy's father's drinking binges stop between 1920 and 1926?
(a) His father found out who killed Eddie in 1926.
(b) His father revealed to his wife who killed Eddie in 1926.
(c) His father found out Eddie was innocent in 1926.
(d) His father found out about Eddie being an informer in 1926.

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

5. Why does the boy ride home with Sergeant Burke in the police car?
(a) He didn't have a ride home.
(b) He was out wandering at night.
(c) He was in trouble.
(d) He was being bullied.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the boy's father when he was left in charge of the family?

2. What does the boy find in the wardrobe of his sister's bedroom?

3. From which part of the traditions of both Protestants and Catholics does the boy derive excitement?

4. What causes the boy to have nightmares?

5. Where did the shoot-out of 1922 occur?

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