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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

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. Who gives a gun to the boy's father?
(a) A family friend.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) A local policeman.
(d) A German sailor.

3. Which of the boy's relatives dies in October 1949?
(a) His sister.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His father.
(d) His uncle.

4. What does the boy's father do for a living?
(a) He is a salesman.
(b) He is an electrician.
(c) He is a shopkeeper.
(d) He is a factory worker.

5. Where are the boy's father's sisters sent to live after the death of their parents?
(a) Their father's brother.
(b) Their mother's sister.
(c) Their grandfather.
(d) Their brother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the boy's father work?

3. According to the local belief his father told the boy, who gathers at the Field of the Disappeared at Christmas and other festivals?

4. How do the boy's father's parents die?

5. What color is the light above the graves of Francis and Frances' parents?

(see the answer key)

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