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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what language does the boy write the final copy?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Irish.
(d) English.

3. Why doesn't the girl return Jimmy's affection?
(a) She loves someone else.
(b) She doesn't associate with his family.
(c) She moves away.
(d) She lives a life of celibacy.

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

5. What eventually happens to Danno?
(a) He moves away.
(b) He becomes ill and dies.
(c) He returns to the military.
(d) He starts a new family.

6. After his mother tells him much of the story of Eddie's death at the end of Chapter 5, why is the boy still hurt?
(a) She does not tell him everything.
(b) She lies.
(c) He doesn't understand the full story.
(d) He thinks his mother does not know the truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. When does the boy's mother find out the truth about Eddie?
(a) After Tony disappears.
(b) She never learns the truth of Eddie's death.
(c) Right before her father dies.
(d) After she marries the boy's father.

14. What is wrong about the boy taking Irene to the cinema?
(a) The cinema is closed.
(b) He forgets where the cinema is.
(c) She is Grenaghan's girlfriend.
(d) He doesn't have any money.

15. Which two groups does the boy's mother find out were collaborating together?
(a) The boy's uncles and the priests.
(b) The police and the priests.
(c) The priests and the IRA.
(d) The police and the boy's uncles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the boy's mother after she stops taking the medicine?

3. Where do the police help McIlhenny escape to after he was tipped off to the boy's grandfather in 1926?

4. Which one of these characters does not know the truth about Eddie's death in Chapter 5?

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

(see the answer keys)

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