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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. Upon what does the Anglican army chaplain say communism is based?
2. According to Chapter 6, what was Tony's job before he disappeared?
3. Who was Jimmy in love with?
4. Why is the boy punished in 1954 by the Dean?
5. Who is the man who always carried a baby sock in his small brown case?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the boy's mother turn hostile toward him in Chapter 6?
2. What does Crazy Joe know about the mystery surrounding Eddie's death?
3. What is the boy punished for by the Dean and what is his punishment?
4. What is important about the boy's reading of the story of Eddie's death in Irish?
5. How does his mother's inability to speak because of her stroke affect her relationship with the boy?
6. Why doesn't the boy reveal to his parents what he knows of Eddie's death?
7. Why does Katie's family refuse to attend Meave's wedding?
8. What information does the boy's mother find out after Sergeant Burke dies that makes her angry?
9. Why is Crazy Joe such a valuable character to the story of Eddie's disappearance and death?
10. Why is the boy again upset with his mother at the end of Chapter 5?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Which characters in the novel would be considered guides for the boy narrator? What do they teach him? Are they positive or negative mentors?
Essay Topic 3
If you were the boy narrator, would you have kept the information you found out about Eddie's death a secret? The boy narrator does not reveal to his mother what he knows; would you have done the same? What might have changed if the boy had told his mother what he knew?
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