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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What causes the infestation mentioned in Chapter 3?
(a) An abandoned warehouse.
(b) An abandoned house.
(c) The swamps.
(d) A nearby dumping ground.

3. What happens to Billy Mahon?
(a) He is framed for murder.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is pushed off the bridge.
(d) He is robbed.

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

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

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

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

8. Why do the boy's father's drinking binges stop between 1920 and 1926?
(a) His father found out about Eddie being an informer in 1926.
(b) His father revealed to his wife who killed Eddie in 1926.
(c) His father found out Eddie was innocent in 1926.
(d) His father found out who killed Eddie in 1926.

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

10. What information about the family secret does the boy know in Chapter 3 that his parents do not know?
(a) Who killed Eddie.
(b) Where Eddie was killed.
(c) What happened to Tony.
(d) Who the real informer was.

11. Which of the boy's relatives dies in October 1949?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His father.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His sister.

12. Which section of the library does Crazy Joe frequent?
(a) The art section.
(b) The adult section.
(c) The literature section.
(d) The history section.

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

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

15. What does Sergeant Burke suggest to the boy as he gives him a ride home?
(a) That Eddie was involved in something dangerous before his disappearance.
(b) That Eddie was killed.
(c) That the boy's father is responsible for Eddie's disappearance.
(d) That the boy's father doesn't know what really happened to Eddie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is Larry McLaughlin related?

3. Who tells the boy about the murder of 1921?

4. What do the boy's parents suggest he should have done instead of involving Sergeant Burke when he was being bullied?

5. What type of stone chair is hidden in the ruins of Grianan?

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