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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The famous shoot-out in 1922 was between which two groups of people?
(a) The IRA and the police.
(b) The IRA and the boy's family.
(c) The police and the boy's family.
(d) The boy's uncles and the IRA.

2. What key theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 1?
(a) The conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants.
(b) The death of the boy's sister.
(c) The conflict between the police and the IRA.
(d) The disappearance of the boy's uncle.

3. What does "The Shan Van Vocht" mean?
(a) The Land of Poverty.
(b) The Poor Old Woman.
(c) The Conflict of Past.
(d) The Lovely Dark Land.

4. What does Brother Regan teach the boys at the school in December of 1948?
(a) Action should be taken to prevent further violence.
(b) Bad things happen because people make poor choices.
(c) God's love extends even to those who commit evil deeds.
(d) Only God should judge people and decide their fate.

5. Which three males are attacked at the end of the chapter?
(a) The boy, his brother Liam, and their father.
(b) Rory Hannaway, Neil McLaughlin, and the boy's uncle.
(c) Brother Regan, the boy, and his father.
(d) The boy, his father, and Rory Hannaway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells the boy about the murder of 1921?

2. Who is the heroine of the novel the boy reads in the dark?

3. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?

4. Which two characters are introduced first at the beginning of the novel?

5. In Chapter 1, where does the boy's mother ask him to take flowers?

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