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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novel is the first book the boy has ever read?
(a) The History of Ireland.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Poor Old Woman.
(d) Paradise Lost.

2. Which three males are attacked at the end of the chapter?
(a) The boy, his brother Liam, and their father.
(b) The boy, his father, and Rory Hannaway.
(c) Brother Regan, the boy, and his father.
(d) Rory Hannaway, Neil McLaughlin, and the boy's uncle.

3. Who is Billy Mahon?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A priest.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) A friend of the family.

4. What type of stone chair is hidden in the ruins of Grianan?
(a) A throne.
(b) A stool.
(c) A wishing chair.
(d) A table chair.

5. On what day do the Francis and Frances' parents die?
(a) November 21.
(b) September 14.
(c) May 7.
(d) August 11.

6. What is distinct about Larry McLaughlin's character?
(a) He tells stories.
(b) He is missing.
(c) He wanders.
(d) He does not talk.

7. Who tells the boy that some families are devil-haunted?
(a) Katie.
(b) Bernadette.
(c) Brigid.
(d) Frances.

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

9. Who does the boy find out is responsible for the murder of 1921?
(a) Brother Regan.
(b) A policeman.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) Neil McLaughlin.

10. What do Frances and Francis do every day?
(a) Sing songs.
(b) Put flowers on their parents' graves.
(c) Put on costumes.
(d) Play in the Field of the Disappeared.

11. After his parents die, Eddie leaves. Where does everyone think he went?
(a) He went to Grianan.
(b) He enlisted in the IRA.
(c) He skipped town with his girlfriend.
(d) He went to America.

12. How do the boy's father's parents die?
(a) Killed at the shootout at the distillery.
(b) An accident.
(c) Fever.
(d) Old age.

13. What do people believe lay below the ruins of Grianan?
(a) The bodies of legendary ancient warriors.
(b) The souls of those who had disappeared.
(c) The souls of those who did not have a Christian burial.
(d) The ghosts of unborn children.

14. In what year does the novel begin?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1945.

15. What is the first physical change Francis and Frances encounter?
(a) Their reflections in the mirror disappear.
(b) Their voices switch.
(c) Their hair changes color.
(d) They both change genders.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the boy and his brother, Liam, are taken across the river by their father, what does his father's explanation about Eddie reveal to the boy?

3. Which section of the library does Crazy Joe frequent?

4. What information about the family secret does the boy know in Chapter 3 that his parents do not know?

5. Where are the boy's father's sisters sent to live after the death of their parents?

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