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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people believe lay below the ruins of Grianan?
(a) The ghosts of unborn children.
(b) The souls of those who did not have a Christian burial.
(c) The bodies of legendary ancient warriors.
(d) The souls of those who had disappeared.

2. What does the boy think happened to Eddie in the secret passage of Grianan?
(a) His grandfather shot him.
(b) Larry shot him.
(c) Eddie starved to death.
(d) Eddie was swallowed up by the earth.

3. Where did the shoot-out of 1922 occur?
(a) In the market.
(b) In the church.
(c) In the streets.
(d) In the distillery.

4. An army chaplain comes to the school to talk to the boys about what?
(a) Communism.
(b) The war.
(c) Enlisting.
(d) The plague.

5. Who also visits the boy's parents as he is there in Chapter 6?
(a) Tony.
(b) Crazy Joe.
(c) Sergeant Burke.
(d) The dead soldier's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crazy Joe reveal to the boy?

2. What does the boy find in the wardrobe of his sister's bedroom?

3. In Chapter 1, why doesn't the boy's mother want him to cross by the window at the top of the stairs?

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

5. How does Rory Hannaway die?

(see the answer key)

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