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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 the real informer?
(a) The boy's grandfather.
(b) Larry McLaughlin.
(c) Tony McIlhenny.
(d) Crazy Joe.

2. Why is the boy's mother afraid of her visitor?
(a) The person might hurt her.
(b) The person might find out too much.
(c) The person might take her from her family.
(d) The person might reveal too much.

3. Why doesn't the girl return Jimmy's affection?
(a) She lives a life of celibacy.
(b) She moves away.
(c) She loves someone else.
(d) She doesn't associate with his family.

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

5. How long are Bernadette and Ena kept in the shed until the boy's father finds them?
(a) A year and a half.
(b) Three months.
(c) Eight months.
(d) Eleven months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Charlie McCabe?

2. How does the boy's father die?

3. On what day do the Francis and Frances' parents die?

4. At the very end of the book, what does the narrator think he hears as he is going down the stairs?

5. From where does the title of the novel get its name?

(see the answer key)

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