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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the boy ride home with Sergeant Burke in the police car?
(a) He was in trouble.
(b) He was being bullied.
(c) He didn't have a ride home.
(d) He was out wandering at night.

2. What does Sergeant Burke suggest to the boy as he gives him a ride home?
(a) That Eddie was involved in something dangerous before his disappearance.
(b) That the boy's father is responsible for Eddie's disappearance.
(c) That the boy's father doesn't know what really happened to Eddie.
(d) That Eddie was killed.

3. Who is Katie?
(a) The boy's grandmother.
(b) The boy's sister.
(c) The boy's mother's sister.
(d) The boy's father's aunt.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what ways are the boys in the math class punished if they do not answer the questions correctly?

3. What happened to the boy's sister, Una, in 1948?

4. When the boy and his brother, Liam, are taken across the river by their father, what does his father's explanation about Eddie reveal to the boy?

5. Why is the murder case of 1921 thrown out of court?

(see the answer key)

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