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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. By the end of Chapter 6, how many of the boy's parents' children live at home?
2. What does the boy write down in the exercise book?
3. What information does Katie have over her sister?
4. In what year does the novel conclude?
5. What happens to the boy's mother after she stops taking the medicine?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the boy's mother turn hostile toward him in Chapter 6?
2. What is important about the boy's reading of the story of Eddie's death in Irish?
3. The boy's mother is saddened throughout the entire novel, but why does her depression set in after her grandfather dies?
4. 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?
5. What does Crazy Joe know about the mystery surrounding Eddie's death?
6. What does Sergeant Burke reveal about Eddie's death and Tony's involvement?
7. What does the boy recall about "unconditional love"?
8. In what ways are the problems of Northern Ireland just beginning as the problems the boy faces are now ending?
9. What does the boy mean when he says he has become the "plague himself" by wanting to know what had "plagued her"?
10. What does Father Nugent talk to the boy narrator about and why does it make him uncomfortable?
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
Discuss the significance of silence in the novel.
1.) How and why does Larry McLaughlin stop talking? How does it affect the family secret?
2.) How and why does Brigid stop talking? What does this reflect on Larry's own silence?
3.) How and why does the boy's mother stop talking? How does this affect her inner turmoil?
Essay Topic 3
Does the boy narrator experience any form of catharsis in the novel? If so, what level of catharsis does he attain? Explain.
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