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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who also visits the boy's parents as he is there in Chapter 6?
(a) Tony.
(b) The dead soldier's father.
(c) Crazy Joe.
(d) Sergeant Burke.

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

3. What happens to the boy's mother in 1968?
(a) She meets an old friend.
(b) She suffers a stroke.
(c) She gets in an accident.
(d) She goes insane.

4. What happens to the boy after he takes the girl to the cinema?
(a) He asks her to be his girlfriend.
(b) He gives her flowers.
(c) He gets hit after being set up by the girl.
(d) His parents see him kiss her goodnight.

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

6. Who is Charlie McCabe?
(a) A local post office inspector.
(b) A local Protestant police officer.
(c) A Catholic priest.
(d) An informer.

7. What does the boy think happened to Eddie in the secret passage of Grianan?
(a) Eddie starved to death.
(b) His grandfather shot him.
(c) Larry shot him.
(d) Eddie was swallowed up by the earth.

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

9. Who does Larry meet on his way home from Grianan?
(a) The devil-woman.
(b) The boy's grandfather.
(c) Sergeant Burke.
(d) Crazy Joe.

10. What does Katie's sister tell her that upsets her?
(a) That Meave will stop talking to Katie soon.
(b) That Meave's husband will leave her just like Katie's husband left her.
(c) That Tony really loved Katie's sister instead.
(d) That Meave's husband would soon cheat on her.

11. What does Jimmy do before he is found dead?
(a) He curses at the window of the room where Danno had lived.
(b) He hides the gun.
(c) He visits the doctor.
(d) He kills Claire.

12. In what year does the boy enter university?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1971.

13. An army chaplain comes to the school to talk to the boys about what?
(a) Enlisting.
(b) Communism.
(c) The war.
(d) The plague.

14. What does the boy's mother do with the flower he gives her in Chapter 6?
(a) She throws it away.
(b) She puts it in a vase in the window.
(c) She eats it.
(d) She destroys it.

15. Where does Jimmy go to work for several years?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was McIlhenny involved with before he marries Katie?

2. For what does Sergeant Burke apologize in 1957?

3. The boy's mother's depression causes her to do what?

4. What information does Katie have over her sister?

5. Why does Sergeant Burke want the situation with Eddie's death cleared up?

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