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

2. Who is Mrs. Wilson's farmhand?
(a) Sam.
(b) Ned.
(c) William.
(d) Henry.

3. Where do the men go sometimes for meals?
(a) McCallister's.
(b) Helen's.
(c) Kehoe's.
(d) Bendry's.

4. Who takes Furlong's mother to the hospital the day he is born?
(a) Mrs. Vickers.
(b) Mrs. Hendries.
(c) Mrs. Wilson.
(d) Mrs. Weaver.

5. Who does Furlong give change to while he is foraging sticks along the road?
(a) His nephew Michael.
(b) Ned Hendry.
(c) Mick Sinnott's little boy.
(d) Paul Wellingsly.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what are there are a lot of in December?

2. What year is the book set in?

3. What does Eileen want to get a loan for in the new year?

4. When were there yellow trees?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unusual about December in New Ross?

2. What do the Furlongs use to cook upon?

3. What does one girl ask Furlong when he makes a delivery at the laundry in Part II?

4. What does Furlong wonder if Eileen ever wonders about?

5. What tradition do the five Furlong daughters do every Christmas?

6. What kind of reputation does the laundry at the convent have?

7. In Part II, what kind of existential worry does Furlong have?

8. Why was Furlong sometimes treated badly as a child?

9. How does Furlong treat his workers?

10. What are some rumors about the laundry at the convent?

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