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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens that lets the boy know his father isn't upset anymore about the rose bushes?
(a) His father comes in and kisses his head.
(b) His father smiles at him.
(c) His father tells him he understands why his son did it.
(d) His father apologizes.

2. What does "The Shan Van Vocht" mean?
(a) The Land of Poverty.
(b) The Poor Old Woman.
(c) The Conflict of Past.
(d) The Lovely Dark Land.

3. What does the boy's grandfather reveal about Eddie in Chapter 3?
(a) Eddie was set up.
(b) Eddie was an informer.
(c) Eddie left for America.
(d) Eddie died in a warehouse fire.

4. 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 prohibition of alcohol.
(d) The shutdown of the distillery.

5. 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 were murdered.
(b) The souls of orphans.
(c) The souls of children who died at a young age.
(d) The souls of those who have not had a Christian burial.

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

7. Who teaches the boy's math class?
(a) His father.
(b) Gildea.
(c) His uncle.
(d) Regan.

8. How does the boy's grandfather die?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) An accident.
(c) A stroke.
(d) Old age.

9. What does the boy try to do after his talk with Sergeant Burke in Chapter 3?
(a) To run away.
(b) To talk to his father.
(c) To talk to his mother.
(d) To hide in his room.

10. Which two characters are introduced first at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The boy and Una, his sister.
(b) The boy and Rory Hannaway.
(c) The boy and his father.
(d) The boy and his mother.

11. Where does Tony McIlhenny disappear to?
(a) America.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Poland.
(d) England.

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

13. In Chapter 2, the boy remembers being trapped where?
(a) In the basement of the distillery.
(b) In the church after service.
(c) In the secret passage of Grianan.
(d) In his sister's bedroom.

14. What key theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 1?
(a) The death of the boy's sister.
(b) The conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants.
(c) The conflict between the police and the IRA.
(d) The disappearance of the boy's uncle.

15. What do the boy's parents suggest he should have done instead of involving Sergeant Burke when he was being bullied?
(a) They said he should have stood up for himself.
(b) They said he should have just taken the punches.
(c) They said he should have run away.
(d) They said he should have talked the bully out of fighting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the boy to have nightmares?

2. What color is the light above the graves of Francis and Frances' parents?

3. What happens to both Brigid and Larry in Chapter 2?

4. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?

5. How do the boy's father's parents die?

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