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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. By the end of Chapter 6, how many of the boy's parents' children live at home?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) None.

5. Who told the boy the story of the man with the baby sock?
(a) His father.
(b) Crazy Joe.
(c) His mother.
(d) Katie.

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

7. Who does Larry meet on his way home from Grianan?
(a) Crazy Joe.
(b) The devil-woman.
(c) Sergeant Burke.
(d) The boy's grandfather.

8. When Danno returns home, what does he find?
(a) Nobody remembers who he is.
(b) His family is gone.
(c) His house has burned down.
(d) His wife living with another man.

9. Where does the boy go with Moran in Chapter 4?
(a) The circus.
(b) A football match.
(c) The boy's house.
(d) The distillery.

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

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

12. What does Katie's sister tell her that upsets her?
(a) That Tony really loved Katie's sister instead.
(b) That Meave will stop talking to Katie soon.
(c) That Meave's husband will leave her just like Katie's husband left her.
(d) That Meave's husband would soon cheat on her.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year does the boy enter university?

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

5. Who also visits the boy's parents as he is there in Chapter 6?

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