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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. According to Chapter 6, what was Tony's job before he disappeared?
(a) Bus conductor.
(b) Police inspector.
(c) Coal mine worker.
(d) Train operator.

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

3. In which class do the boys discuss the speech given by the army chaplain?
(a) History class.
(b) Math class.
(c) English class.
(d) Geography class.

4. What happens two days before the boy visits his parents in Chapter 6?
(a) A soldier is shot dead on their doorstep.
(b) The story of Eddie's death becomes public.
(c) His mother dies.
(d) The town gets snowed in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the boy not tell his mother everything he knows about Eddie's death?

2. From whom does the boy's mother warn him to stay away in Chapter 6?

3. Who told the boy the story of the man with the baby sock?

4. How long are Bernadette and Ena kept in the shed until the boy's father finds them?

5. What does Crazy Joe reveal to the boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the boy narrator find it important to his relationship with his mother that he keep her secret?

2. Why does the boy's mother begin to treat him unkindly?

3. Why is the boy again upset with his mother at the end of Chapter 5?

4. What does the boy recall about "unconditional love"?

5. What does the boy mean when he says he has become the "plague himself" by wanting to know what had "plagued her"?

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

7. What does the boy's mother say that upsets Katie?

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

9. Why is Crazy Joe such a valuable character to the story of Eddie's disappearance and death?

10. Why does Sergeant Burke say he beat up Frank and why does he apologize for it?

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