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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, what was Tony's job before he disappeared?
(a) Coal mine worker.
(b) Train operator.
(c) Bus conductor.
(d) Police inspector.

2. What passages of scripture does the boy find intriguing?
(a) The law of the Old Testament.
(b) The prophecies of revelation.
(c) The gospel parables.
(d) The ones about good and evil.

3. Where is Eddie interrogated?
(a) At the Donegal farmhouse.
(b) Behind the house.
(c) In the shed.
(d) At the distillery.

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

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

6. When do the boy's parents marry?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1926.

7. 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) She doesn't think it is working.
(d) It is ruining her teeth.

8. For what does Sergeant Burke apologize in 1957?
(a) For revealing McIlhenny as the informer.
(b) For beating up Frank.
(c) For cheating on his wife.
(d) For killing Eddie.

9. Which character dies in 1959?
(a) Katie McIlhenny.
(b) Tony McIlhenny.
(c) Crazy Joe.
(d) Sergeant Burke.

10. When do Eddie's parents die?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1930.

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

12. Where do the police help McIlhenny escape to after he was tipped off to the boy's grandfather in 1926?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy think happened to Eddie in the secret passage of Grianan?

2. What happens to the boy's father right before he retires?

3. Who teaches the boy about sex?

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

5. Who begins to visit the boy's mother regularly in Chapter 6?

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