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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The man with the baby sock said he would stop traveling on the bus after what happens?
(a) After he finds the owner of the sock.
(b) After he reaches his destination.
(c) After he runs out of bus money.
(d) After he finds the other sock.

2. When Sergeant Burke comes to talk to the boy's mother, what does he reveal as his reason for beating her husband?
(a) He thought Frank was guilty at the time.
(b) To keep Frank out of jail.
(c) He had evidence that Frank was involved in Eddie's death.
(d) Self-defense.

3. To what does Father Nugent compare murder?
(a) Stealing.
(b) Disobeying your parents.
(c) Hating your brother.
(d) Sex without love.

4. What does the boy say is significant because of the mother's change?
(a) Her secret is now locked inside of her.
(b) Her mind won't linger on the secret of loving McIlhenny anymore.
(c) She can't hear the lies about Eddie any longer.
(d) She is no longer depressed.

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. How does Jimmy die?
(a) Broken neck.
(b) Gunshot wound.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Stroke.

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

8. How does his mother's body change after what happens to her in 1968?
(a) She loses her hearing.
(b) She loses the ability to speak.
(c) She loses a limb.
(d) She goes blind.

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

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

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

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

14. What version of the boy's story does he burn?
(a) The English version.
(b) The miscopied version.
(c) The Irish version.
(d) The final version.

15. Why does the boy not tell his mother everything he knows about Eddie's death?
(a) He thinks she is too sensitive to handle the truth.
(b) He doesn't think she deserves to know.
(c) He thinks that she already knows the truth but is hiding it.
(d) He is afraid of her reaction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Jimmy in love with?

2. Where does the boy go with Moran in Chapter 4?

3. What does the boy write down in the exercise book?

4. When the boy encounters Crazy Joe in Chapter 5, what does Crazy Joe ask him to do?

5. At the very end of the book, what does the narrator think he hears as he is going down the stairs?

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