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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to both Brigid and Larry in Chapter 2?
(a) They have lost their ability to speak.
(b) They both cannot see.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They have both lost their jobs.

3. What is going to be built across the river?
(a) Police station.
(b) British oxygen plant.
(c) Private farmhouse.
(d) Catholic church.

4. In October of 1952, where is the boy sent to live?
(a) With a neighbor.
(b) With one of his aunts.
(c) With his grandfather.
(d) With one of his uncles.

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

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

7. The famous shoot-out in 1922 was between which two groups of people?
(a) The boy's uncles and the IRA.
(b) The IRA and the police.
(c) The IRA and the boy's family.
(d) The police and the boy's family.

8. In what ways are the boys in the math class punished if they do not answer the questions correctly?
(a) Cleaning or caning.
(b) Extra homework or caning.
(c) Time out or extra homework.
(d) Extra homework or cleaning.

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

10. What causes the priest to call off Larry McLaughlin's wedding?
(a) Larry isn't ready to get married.
(b) Larry doesn't want to get married.
(c) Larry has cheated on this soon-to-be wife.
(d) Larry has become insane.

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

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

13. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?
(a) The famine of 1740.
(b) The rebellion of 1798.
(c) The black death of 1348.
(d) The shootout of 1922.

14. What are the IRA gunmen protesting at the shootout at the distillery?
(a) The founding of Northern Ireland.
(b) The death of a policeman.
(c) The shutdown of the distillery.
(d) The prohibition of alcohol.

15. According to the boy's father, how long has the boy's mother known about Eddie?
(a) Since a few years ago.
(b) Since just after the boy was born.
(c) Since just before she married the boy's father.
(d) Since just after she married the boy's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what causes the boy's mother to become inconsolable?

2. Who is Meave?

3. In June 1948, what does the boy witness?

4. What does the boy's grandfather reveal about Eddie in Chapter 3?

5. What happens to the boy when the police come to search the house?

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