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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Brigid think she is going mad?
(a) The orphans keep changing.
(b) She is losing her voice.
(c) She sees ghosts out the window.
(d) She keeps losing things.

2. What happens to the boy when the police come to search the house?
(a) He is told to leave the house so they can search it.
(b) He is beaten by the police.
(c) He is hidden in the attic by his father.
(d) He is taken to the jail for further interrogation.

3. What does Jimmy do before he is found dead?
(a) He hides the gun.
(b) He kills Claire.
(c) He visits the doctor.
(d) He curses at the window of the room where Danno had lived.

4. Who teaches the boy about sex?
(a) Brother Regan.
(b) Father Nugent.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

5. How does Rory Hannaway die?
(a) Drowned in the river.
(b) Beaten to death by thieves.
(c) Contracted meningitis.
(d) Killed by a reversing lorry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will no one ever know what really happened to Eddie in the secret passageway of Grianan?

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

3. Who is Billy Mahon?

4. Who does Larry meet on his way home from Grianan?

5. Upon what does the Anglican army chaplain say communism is based?

(see the answer key)

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