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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Tony McIlhenny disappear?
(a) When the boy is born.
(b) When Katie is pregnant.
(c) When Ena dies.
(d) When Una dies.

2. Who is the real informer?
(a) Larry McLaughlin.
(b) The boy's grandfather.
(c) Tony McIlhenny.
(d) Crazy Joe.

3. When Danno returns home, what does he find?
(a) Nobody remembers who he is.
(b) His family is gone.
(c) His wife living with another man.
(d) His house has burned down.

4. Upon what does the Anglican army chaplain say communism is based?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Hate.
(c) Pacifism.
(d) Greed.

5. What does the boy's mother say out-of-the-blue while he is washing dishes with his father?
(a) "Paradise was not far away when I died."
(b) "We only live once."
(c) "Silence follows those who know the truth."
(d) "The queen smiles for a day."

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the boy piece together that his father knew the full story about Eddie being an informant?

2. Who is Ena?

3. The famous shoot-out in 1922 was between which two groups of people?

4. Who does the boy find out is responsible for the murder of 1921?

5. How does the boy's grandfather die?

(see the answer key)

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