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

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

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

4. In September 1954, the boy's teacher asks several unanswerable questions in which class?
(a) Geography.
(b) Language.
(c) Religion.
(d) Mathematics.

5. Why is the boy punished in 1954 by the Dean?
(a) Not doing his homework.
(b) Cheating on the test.
(c) Skipping the retreat.
(d) Badmouthing the teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what language does the boy write the final copy?

2. Where does the boy go with Moran in Chapter 4?

3. When the boy encounters Crazy Joe in Chapter 5, what does Crazy Joe ask him to do?

4. When do Eddie's parents die?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sergeant Burke's purpose for going to the boy's mother and revealing all that he knows of Eddie's death?

2. Why does the boy's mother turn hostile toward him in Chapter 6?

3. Why does the boy's evening with Irene prove to be a disappointment?

4. What is important about the boy's reading of the story of Eddie's death in Irish?

5. What does Sergeant Burke reveal about Eddie's death and Tony's involvement?

6. What does Crazy Joe know about the mystery surrounding Eddie's death?

7. What information does the boy's mother find out after Sergeant Burke dies that makes her angry?

8. What does the boy believe about his loyalties to his parents as he sets off to college?

9. How does the boy conclude that it was his mother who tipped off McIlhenny?

10. How does his mother's inability to speak because of her stroke affect her relationship with the boy?

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