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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ena?
(a) The boy's grandmother.
(b) The boy's mother's sister.
(c) The boy's sister.
(d) The boy's father's sister.

2. According to the local belief his father told the boy, who gathers at the Field of the Disappeared at Christmas and other festivals?
(a) The souls of those who have not had a Christian burial.
(b) The souls of children who died at a young age.
(c) The souls of those who were murdered.
(d) The souls of orphans.

3. What causes the boy to have nightmares?
(a) Stories of the murder trial of 1922.
(b) His mother's unsuccessful suicide attempts caused by her depression.
(c) His treatment by the police.
(d) The death of his sister.

4. What does the boy's mother tell him to put in the fire?
(a) Her pills.
(b) Her dress.
(c) The gun.
(d) The newspaper.

5. Chapter 3 opens with the narrator talking about the neighborhood having what kind of infestation problem?
(a) Mice.
(b) Rats.
(c) Bees.
(d) Roaches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the IRA gunmen protesting at the shootout at the distillery?

3. What is distinct about Larry McLaughlin's character?

4. Why is the boys' mother upset when they return from their boat ride across the river?

5. The famous shoot-out in 1922 was between which two groups of people?

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