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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Katie?
(a) The boy's grandmother.
(b) The boy's father's aunt.
(c) The boy's mother's sister.
(d) The boy's sister.
2. In October of 1952, where is the boy sent to live?
(a) With one of his uncles.
(b) With his grandfather.
(c) With a neighbor.
(d) With one of his aunts.
3. Where did the shoot-out of 1922 occur?
(a) In the church.
(b) In the market.
(c) In the distillery.
(d) In the streets.
4. What do people believe lay below the ruins of Grianan?
(a) The bodies of legendary ancient warriors.
(b) The ghosts of unborn children.
(c) The souls of those who had disappeared.
(d) The souls of those who did not have a Christian burial.
5. How does Rory Hannaway die?
(a) Drowned in the river.
(b) Killed by a reversing lorry.
(c) Beaten to death by thieves.
(d) Contracted meningitis.
Short Answer Questions
1. When does Tony McIlhenny disappear?
2. What does Crazy Joe say Larry's mysterious woman turns into?
3. What novel is the first book the boy has ever read?
4. During the war, when the alarms go off because of the air raids, where does the family hide?
5. In 1949, the police arrive at the boy's house in search of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the disappearance of Uncle Eddie such a mystery?
2. How is the motif of fire used in Chapter 3?
3. How is the boy's father's life seen as very difficult and sad?
4. What does the boy's grandfather tell him right before he dies?
5. How is the theme of disappearance used in Chapter 1?
6. Why is the boy narrator fond of Aunt Katie?
7. Who is Tony and what happened to him?
8. Describe the narrator.
9. When the boy's father takes him and his brother Liam out on the boat, what does his father reveal to them and why does it make the boy feel uncomfortable?
10. Why is the boy uncomfortable with the sympathy he feels for the police after Rory Hannaway's death?
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