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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong about the boy taking Irene to the cinema?
(a) He forgets where the cinema is.
(b) She is Grenaghan's girlfriend.
(c) He doesn't have any money.
(d) The cinema is closed.

2. What does the boy realize about his mother after the onset of her depression?
(a) She had been in love with someone other than his father.
(b) She is faking her depression.
(c) She was involved in Eddie's death.
(d) He doesn't trust his mother.

3. How does the boy's grandfather die?
(a) A stroke.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) An accident.
(d) Old age.

4. Why does Sergeant Burke want the situation with Eddie's death cleared up?
(a) So that the boy's mother is happy again.
(b) So that he can sleep at night.
(c) So that someone will be punished for it.
(d) So that the children will not be poisoned by it.

5. Which of these statements about the local asylum is true?
(a) It has only male patients.
(b) It has a positive turnover rate.
(c) It went under right after Eddie's disappearance.
(d) It has a reputation for cruel treatment of patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy's mother say out-of-the-blue while he is washing dishes with his father?

2. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?

3. In Chapter 1, where does the boy's mother ask him to take flowers?

4. In October of 1952, where is the boy sent to live?

5. Why is the murder case of 1921 thrown out of court?

(see the answer key)

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