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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?
(a) The rebellion of 1798.
(b) The black death of 1348.
(c) The famine of 1740.
(d) The shootout of 1922.

2. In Chapter 1, what causes the boy's mother to become inconsolable?
(a) The boy becomes sick.
(b) Her husband leaves.
(c) One of her children dies.
(d) She loses her job.

3. From where does the title of the novel get its name?
(a) The boy's reading of his first book.
(b) The sadness felt by the boy after being forced to read only at night.
(c) The loneliness of reading alone and the boy's feeling of being alone.
(d) The confusion the boy feels by not understanding what he reads.

4. What does the boy find in the wardrobe of his sister's bedroom?
(a) A photo album.
(b) A gun.
(c) Money.
(d) A flower.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which three males are attacked at the end of the chapter?

3. What novel is the first book the boy has ever read?

4. What does Brother Regan teach the boys at the school in December of 1948?

5. What happens to Billy Mahon?

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