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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maeve do when she hears Dennis' voice?
(a) Tells him to be quiet
(b) Rushes downstairs
(c) Puts a pillow over her head
(d) Asks him to speak up

2. Who would help Maeve get Billy to bed when he was drunk?
(a) Eric
(b) Brian
(c) Dan
(d) Dennis

3. What do most people tell Dennis to do after his wife dies?
(a) Cry
(b) Throw things
(c) Scream
(d) Pound the wall

4. What is an important theme in this chapter?
(a) Family
(b) Lies
(c) Death
(d) Betrayal

5. Who had sent Maeve the item stuck in the mirror?
(a) Dennis
(b) Dan
(c) Sheila
(d) Billy

6. Dennis tells his daughter that he ______________________.
(a) Hates God
(b) Is too tired to think about religion
(c) Wants to convert to Catholicism
(d) Believes everything now

7. Who sits all night with Maeve on the night that Billy dies?
(a) Kate
(b) Dennis
(c) Dennis' daughter
(d) Her neighbor

8. Eva tells Billy that Mary has been married ________ times.
(a)
(b) 2
(c) 1
(d) 3

9. What does Maeve do in the early days of her courtship with Billy in order to get to see him?
(a) Sits in the coffee shop across the street
(b) Joins his church
(c) Throws her father's shoes down the incinerator and has to go to the shoe store
(d) Drives up and down his street

10. Who stays to help Maeve through the night after Billy's funeral?
(a) Kate
(b) Dennis' daughter
(c) Dennis
(d) Sheila

11. What self-centered behavior do Dennis' children exhibit after their mother dies?
(a) They do not call their father
(b) They leave as soon as she is buried
(c) They leave to go about their own lives
(d) They don't travel to attend the funeral

12. Eva tells Billy that Mary _____________________________.
(a) Died a few years ago
(b) Entered the convent
(c) Moved to Italy
(d) Never forgave Eva for her deception

13. What does Billy do when he arrives in Ireland?
(a) Goes to church
(b) Goes to his hotel
(c) Rents a car
(d) Walks on the beach

14. Maeve learns that Billy's body has been taken to _____________________.
(a) The VA Hospital
(b) NYU Medical Center
(c) The morgue
(d) The police station

15. Who helps Maeve with Billy's funeral arrangements?
(a) Dennis' daughter
(b) Eric
(c) Dennis
(d) Dan

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Dennis accepted the bribe money all those years ago?

2. Why does Maeve get upset when she hears Dennis speaking to the dog?

3. How do Dennis' kids want Dennis to grieve?

4. Maeve's father always reminded Maeve that ______________________________.

5. On the night Billy is buried, Dennis' daughter asks him if he still _________________________.

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