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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 people believe lay below the ruins of Grianan?
(a) The bodies of legendary ancient warriors.
(b) The souls of those who had disappeared.
(c) The souls of those who did not have a Christian burial.
(d) The ghosts of unborn children.

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 shootout of 1922.
(d) The famine of 1740.

3. What causes the infestation mentioned in Chapter 3?
(a) An abandoned warehouse.
(b) An abandoned house.
(c) The swamps.
(d) A nearby dumping ground.

4. What key theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 1?
(a) The conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants.
(b) The conflict between the police and the IRA.
(c) The disappearance of the boy's uncle.
(d) The death of the boy's sister.

5. Who tells the boy about the murder of 1921?
(a) Neil McLaughlin.
(b) Billy Mahon.
(c) Brother Regan.
(d) Rory Hannaway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Charlie McCabe?

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

3. Who gives a gun to the boy's father?

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

5. What is Claire's last expression?

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