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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the boy's father right before he retires?
(a) He goes missing.
(b) He dies.
(c) He reveals everything about Eddie's death.
(d) He suffers a heart attack.

2. Who was McIlhenny involved with before he marries Katie?
(a) Ena.
(b) The boy's mother.
(c) Brigid.
(d) Bernadette.

3. What language does the boy use to his advantage because his parents do not understand it?
(a) Irish.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) French.

4. The boy's mother's depression causes her to do what?
(a) Have panic attacks.
(b) Sleepwalk.
(c) Throw things.
(d) Stop talking.

5. Who is the man who always carried a baby sock in his small brown case?
(a) Joe.
(b) Tony.
(c) Sean.
(d) Seamus.

6. What does Crazy Joe reveal to the boy?
(a) He saw McIlhenny get out of the Sergeant's car in July 1926.
(b) He knows who tipped off McIlhenny.
(c) He saw Eddie die.
(d) He knows why Larry has stopped talking.

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

8. From whom does the boy's mother warn him to stay away in Chapter 6?
(a) His uncles.
(b) The police.
(c) Crazy Joe.
(d) The priests.

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

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

11. Where does the boy go to university?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Belfast.
(c) Shannon.
(d) Limerick.

12. What does the boy conclude about his mother during Chapter 5?
(a) She didn't really like Tony.
(b) She always knew about Eddie's death.
(c) She always knew McIlhenny was an informer.
(d) She was always insane.

13. Why is the boy's mother afraid of her visitor?
(a) The person might hurt her.
(b) The person might take her from her family.
(c) The person might reveal too much.
(d) The person might find out too much.

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

15. What is Claire's last expression?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Terror.
(c) Humor.
(d) Sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the boy piece together that his father knew the full story about Eddie being an informant?

2. What eventually happens to Danno?

3. Who does Larry meet on his way home from Grianan?

4. The man with the baby sock said he would stop traveling on the bus after what happens?

5. When Danno returns home, what does he find?

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