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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which two groups does the boy's mother find out were collaborating together?
2. In what year does the boy enter university?
3. Who is Jimmy from Chapter 4?
4. In September 1954, the boy's teacher asks several unanswerable questions in which class?
5. In what year does the novel conclude?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Crazy Joe such a valuable character to the story of Eddie's disappearance and death?
2. Why does the boy's evening with Irene prove to be a disappointment?
3. How is the boy's mother's interpretation of the story of Sean and the baby sock a reflection on her own relationship with Tony McIlhenny and her role in Eddie's murder?
4. What scripture passages does the boy enjoy reading, but why do they trouble him?
5. Why does Katie's family refuse to attend Meave's wedding?
6. What does the boy mean when he says he has become the "plague himself" by wanting to know what had "plagued her"?
7. In what ways are the problems of Northern Ireland just beginning as the problems the boy faces are now ending?
8. Describe the relationship between Tony, Katie, and the boy's mother.
9. Who is Danno Bredin?
10. What does the boy believe about his loyalties to his parents as he sets off to college?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the boy's mother and father.
1.) How are they different in their treatments of the boy? How are they same?
2.) What parts of the family secret does each of them know?
3.) How do their behaviors change over the course of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Would it have been better if the mystery of Eddie's death was revealed earlier in the novel? How does the slowly unfolding mystery add to the boy narrator's character development? How does it shape him to become the man he grows up to be?
Essay Topic 3
Foreshadowing is used multiple times in the novel. Cite three examples and show how they are used to indicate events that will happen later in the novel.
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