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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what language does the boy write the final copy?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Irish.

3. What happens two days before the boy visits his parents in Chapter 6?
(a) His mother dies.
(b) The story of Eddie's death becomes public.
(c) A soldier is shot dead on their doorstep.
(d) The town gets snowed in.

4. Which two groups does the boy's mother find out were collaborating together?
(a) The boy's uncles and the priests.
(b) The priests and the IRA.
(c) The police and the boy's uncles.
(d) The police and the priests.

5. In Chapter 2, at what time does the grandfather clock strike before it stops for good?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Nine.
(d) Midnight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ena?

2. After the boy's mother develops depression, what does she begin to have visions of?

3. What does the boy think happened to Eddie in the secret passage of Grianan?

4. What does the boy's mother do with the flower he gives her in Chapter 6?

5. In which class do the boys discuss the speech given by the army chaplain?

(see the answer key)

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