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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In September 1954, the boy's teacher asks several unanswerable questions in which class?
(a) Language.
(b) Geography.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Religion.

2. Where does the boy tell his father in Chapter 2 that he would like to go?
(a) Donegal.
(b) Grianan.
(c) The Field of the Disappeared.
(d) Buncrana.

3. From which part of the traditions of both Protestants and Catholics does the boy derive excitement?
(a) The gathering.
(b) The singing.
(c) The dancing.
(d) The bonfires.

4. Who is Ena?
(a) The boy's sister.
(b) The boy's mother's sister.
(c) The boy's father's sister.
(d) The boy's grandmother.

5. When Sergeant Burke comes to talk to the boy's mother, what does he reveal as his reason for beating her husband?
(a) He had evidence that Frank was involved in Eddie's death.
(b) He thought Frank was guilty at the time.
(c) To keep Frank out of jail.
(d) Self-defense.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does the Anglican army chaplain say communism is based?

2. When does the boy's mother find out the truth about Eddie?

3. Why will no one ever know what really happened to Eddie in the secret passageway of Grianan?

4. Who tells the boy that some families are devil-haunted?

5. Why does Brigid think she is going mad?

(see the answer key)

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