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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, All Hallows' Eve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Asian city did Lynch mention as a place where funeral pyres are frequent?
(a) Bangkok.
(b) Peshawar.
(c) Calcutta.
(d) Delhi.

2. What singing group did Lynch desire to emulate?
(a) The Rolling Stones.
(b) The Who.
(c) The Everly Brothers.
(d) Simon and Garfunkel.

3. In what decade of life did most of the Lynch men die?
(a) 40s.
(b) 60s.
(c) 50s.
(d) 70s.

4. What Christian writer did Lynch's mother frequently read?
(a) Thomas Kempis.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) St. Augustine.
(d) St. Francis.

5. In Lynch's analogy of life as a trip across America, at what point do you meet a girl?
(a) The Poconos.
(b) The Appalachians.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Memphis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of food made Lynch and Patterson sick in Ireland?

2. What immigrant group did Lynch say has a fondness for funeral services?

3. What was the last name of the undertaker who handled Nora's death?

4. On what day was Lynch's mother buried?

5. What American TV show did Nora Lynch begin watching once she got her first television set?

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