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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Crazy Joe say Larry's mysterious woman turns into?
(a) A deer.
(b) A fox.
(c) A bird.
(d) A butterfly.

4. After his parents die, Eddie leaves. Where does everyone think he went?
(a) He skipped town with his girlfriend.
(b) He went to America.
(c) He enlisted in the IRA.
(d) He went to Grianan.

5. Why do the boy's father's drinking binges stop between 1920 and 1926?
(a) His father found out about Eddie being an informer in 1926.
(b) His father found out who killed Eddie in 1926.
(c) His father found out Eddie was innocent in 1926.
(d) His father revealed to his wife who killed Eddie in 1926.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the boy describe how he got rid of the infestation in Chapter 3?

2. In October of 1952, where is the boy sent to live?

3. How does Rory Hannaway die?

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

5. In what year does the novel begin?

(see the answer key)

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