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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong about the boy taking Irene to the cinema?
(a) He doesn't have any money.
(b) He forgets where the cinema is.
(c) The cinema is closed.
(d) She is Grenaghan's girlfriend.

2. Why does the boy's father threaten Crazy Joe in Chapter 6?
(a) Because he was mean to the boy.
(b) Because he laid a hand on the boy's knee.
(c) Because he was giving the boy bad advice.
(d) Because he was trying to steal from the boy.

3. When Katie goes to England to attend her daughter's wedding, why does the rest of her family refuse to attend?
(a) Meave is pregnant.
(b) The wedding is on a workday.
(c) It is too far to travel.
(d) The groom is black.

4. In what language does the boy write the final copy?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) Irish.
(d) German.

5. What does the boy's mother tell him to put in the fire?
(a) The gun.
(b) Her pills.
(c) The newspaper.
(d) Her dress.

6. What does the boy realize about his mother after the onset of her depression?
(a) She was involved in Eddie's death.
(b) She is faking her depression.
(c) He doesn't trust his mother.
(d) She had been in love with someone other than his father.

7. Where does Charlie McCabe frequent?
(a) The distillery.
(b) Grianan.
(c) The library.
(d) The brothel.

8. What does the boy write down in the exercise book?
(a) The story of Brigid.
(b) An apology letter.
(c) The details of Eddie's death.
(d) An essay for school.

9. What reason does the boy's mother give for not taking her medicine?
(a) It tastes disgusting.
(b) She claims the medicine is a placebo.
(c) It is ruining her teeth.
(d) She doesn't think it is working.

10. In which class do the boys discuss the speech given by the army chaplain?
(a) History class.
(b) Geography class.
(c) English class.
(d) Math class.

11. Who is Danno Bredin?
(a) Claire's father.
(b) Jimmy's brother.
(c) Young man in the navy.
(d) The boy's friend.

12. When does the boy's mother find out the truth about Eddie?
(a) Right before her father dies.
(b) After she marries the boy's father.
(c) She never learns the truth of Eddie's death.
(d) After Tony disappears.

13. In September 1954, the boy's teacher asks several unanswerable questions in which class?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Geography.
(c) Religion.
(d) Language.

14. What happens to the boy's mother after she stops taking the medicine?
(a) She becomes suicidal.
(b) Her state of mind improves.
(c) She becomes healthier.
(d) She loses her memory.

15. What happens two days before the boy visits his parents in Chapter 6?
(a) A soldier is shot dead on their doorstep.
(b) The town gets snowed in.
(c) His mother dies.
(d) The story of Eddie's death becomes public.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jimmy from Chapter 4?

2. In what year does the boy enter university?

3. Which two groups does the boy's mother find out were collaborating together?

4. What does the boy's mother say out-of-the-blue while he is washing dishes with his father?

5. How does his mother's body change after what happens to her in 1968?

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