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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Furlong's girls do together in Chapter 3?
(a) Sing carols.
(b) Decorate the tree.
(c) Write letters to Santa.
(d) Make cookies.

2. What kind of tree is in the town square for Christmas?
(a) Red Maple.
(b) Parling Narc.
(c) Hendring Spire.
(d) Norway Spruce.

3. How does Furlong toast slabs of soda bread over the Rayburn in Chapter 3?
(a) On a long fork.
(b) With his fingers.
(c) On a grill.
(d) On a spatula.

4. What kind of smoke comes from the fires at the convent?
(a) Odorless smoke.
(b) Red smoke.
(c) Strange, greenish smoke.
(d) No smoke.

5. What does Eileen do with the letters the children write to Santa?
(a) Saves them.
(b) Throws them in the bin.
(c) Burns them.
(d) Mails them.

6. What happens to Furlong after he makes the delivery at the convent?
(a) He loses some money.
(b) He eats heartily.
(c) He gets lost on the road.
(d) He faints.

7. What are Furlong's earliest memories of?
(a) Serving plates, a black range, and a shining floor.
(b) Coal.
(c) Churches.
(d) Tables.

8. Where does Furlong spend most of his infancy?
(a) In a moses basket in Mrs. Wilson's kitchen.
(b) In the laundries.
(c) In the coal house.
(d) In the orphanage.

9. Where is the story set?
(a) New Ross.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Kildare.
(d) Galway.

10. How old was Furlong when his mother died?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

11. Where does Eileen say she will do the Christmas shopping?
(a) Galway.
(b) Cork.
(c) Waterford.
(d) Dublin.

12. What kind of place is the convent?
(a) A dead-looking one.
(b) A powerful-looking one.
(c) An ordinary-looking one.
(d) A gothic-looking one.

13. Who is Furlong's wife?
(a) Janelle.
(b) Helen.
(c) Rochelle.
(d) Eileen.

14. Who did Mrs. Wilson once tell Furlong he was a credit to?
(a) Himself.
(b) Ned.
(c) Her.
(d) His mother.

15. How did Mrs. Wilson's husband die?
(a) Of a heart attack.
(b) In the war.
(c) Of cancer.
(d) In a car accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shop does Eileen want Furlong to buy her Christmas present in?

2. Which river runs through the town the story is set in?

3. When was Furlong born?

4. Who is Furlong's middle child?

5. What paper do Furlong and Eileen read?

(see the answer keys)

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