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

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 confusion the boy feels by not understanding what he reads.
(c) The boy's reading of his first book.
(d) The sadness felt by the boy after being forced to read only at night.

2. What information about the family secret does the boy know in Chapter 3 that his parents do not know?
(a) Where Eddie was killed.
(b) Who the real informer was.
(c) Who killed Eddie.
(d) What happened to Tony.

3. Who is Danno Bredin?
(a) Claire's father.
(b) Young man in the navy.
(c) Jimmy's brother.
(d) The boy's friend.

4. The boy's mother's depression causes her to do what?
(a) Throw things.
(b) Stop talking.
(c) Sleepwalk.
(d) Have panic attacks.

5. Why will no one ever know what really happened to Eddie in the secret passageway of Grianan?
(a) Larry does not speak anymore.
(b) Those who know were sworn to secrecy.
(c) No one was there to witness what happened after he was sealed inside the passageway.
(d) The records of his death were burned.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Eddie interrogated?

2. Where do the police help McIlhenny escape to after he was tipped off to the boy's grandfather in 1926?

3. What do people believe lay below the ruins of Grianan?

4. When do the boy's parents meet?

5. What is going to be built across the river?

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