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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Calm With Horses" Pages 79-131.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Nubbin Tansey since the incident at Munroe's?
(a) He has committed suicide.
(b) He has married and started a family.
(c) He has emigrated to America.
(d) He has been in prison.

2. To what does Jimmy compare all of Tug's ideas about what might have happened to Wayne Clancy?
(a) Black flowers.
(b) Empty pint glasses.
(c) Buses pulling in and out of a station.
(d) Poisoned chocolates.

3. Where do Jenny and Sarah lead Teddy when they leave the pub?
(a) To Grove Park.
(b) To Bleak Woods.
(c) To Glanbeigh Cemetery.
(d) To Farrow Hill.

4. What causes Bat to feel so nauseous that he rushes to the bathroom, thinking he will throw up?
(a) He has had far too much to drink.
(b) Luke brings up the incident at Munroe's.
(c) He sees Luke kiss Tain.
(d) Tain tells him that she has slept with Heg.

5. When Bat is eating dinner after work, why are the two little Minion boys in the kitchen?
(a) They have brought over a cake from their mother.
(b) They have come to play with Bat's younger brother.
(c) His aunt wants Bat to babysit them.
(d) His mother is cutting their hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Val wonder if Martina knows about Joan Doody?

2. What does "Father Time" always have with him?

3. What does Jimmy feel when he and Tug reach the other side of the bridge?

4. Jamie Duffy's nickname, "Scaldyballs," is an example of which literary device?

5. Dympna is convinced that Hector is "working the slow grift" on the woman in Ballintober (98). What does this mean he thinks Hector is doing?

(see the answer key)

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