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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. To whom does the baby sock belong?
(a) The man's sister.
(b) The man's daughter.
(c) No one knows.
(d) The man's niece.

11. When do the boy's parents meet?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1930.

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

13. What reason does the boy's mother give for not taking her medicine?
(a) She doesn't think it is working.
(b) It is ruining her teeth.
(c) She claims the medicine is a placebo.
(d) It tastes disgusting.

14. At the very end of the book, what does the narrator think he hears as he is going down the stairs?
(a) A siren.
(b) A bird.
(c) A sigh.
(d) The clock tower.

15. Who is Danno Bredin?
(a) Young man in the navy.
(b) Claire's father.
(c) The boy's friend.
(d) Jimmy's brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the boy's mother find out the truth about Eddie?

2. What does Crazy Joe reveal to the boy?

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

4. What does the boy's mother say out-of-the-blue while he is washing dishes with his father?

5. Who is Charlie McCabe?

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