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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 is afraid of her reaction.
(c) He doesn't think she deserves to know.
(d) He thinks that she already knows the truth but is hiding it.

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

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

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

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

7. What is his mother's response when the boy asks her what she wants for her birthday?
(a) She wants a new house.
(b) She wants to forget everything.
(c) She wants Tony to come back.
(d) She wants to move away.

8. In what year does the novel conclude?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1977.

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

10. How long are Bernadette and Ena kept in the shed until the boy's father finds them?
(a) Eight months.
(b) Three months.
(c) Eleven months.
(d) A year and a half.

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

12. What information does Katie have over her sister?
(a) Where Katie's sister's husband ran off.
(b) Tony left her sister to be with Katie.
(c) What happened to their parents.
(d) The details of Eddie's disappearance.

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

14. How does the boy's father die?
(a) A second heart attack.
(b) An aneurysm.
(c) An accident.
(d) Fever.

15. How long does the boy piece together that his father knew the full story about Eddie being an informant?
(a) Since 1922.
(b) Since 1928.
(c) Since 1930.
(d) Since 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the boy go to university?

2. What does the boy say is significant because of the mother's change?

3. In September 1954, the boy's teacher asks several unanswerable questions in which class?

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

5. What version of the boy's story does he burn?

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