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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the boy when the police come to search the house?
(a) He is beaten by the police.
(b) He is taken to the jail for further interrogation.
(c) He is hidden in the attic by his father.
(d) He is told to leave the house so they can search it.

2. What does the boy try to do after his talk with Sergeant Burke in Chapter 3?
(a) To talk to his father.
(b) To run away.
(c) To talk to his mother.
(d) To hide in his room.

3. What does Brother Regan teach the boys at the school in December of 1948?
(a) Bad things happen because people make poor choices.
(b) Only God should judge people and decide their fate.
(c) Action should be taken to prevent further violence.
(d) God's love extends even to those who commit evil deeds.

4. What happened to the boy's sister, Una, in 1948?
(a) She was kidnapped.
(b) She ran away.
(c) She became sick and died.
(d) She became paralyzed.

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

6. Where does the boy's father work?
(a) The distillery.
(b) The docks.
(c) The naval base.
(d) The police station.

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

8. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?
(a) The famine of 1740.
(b) The black death of 1348.
(c) The rebellion of 1798.
(d) The shootout of 1922.

9. What is the first physical change Francis and Frances encounter?
(a) Their voices switch.
(b) They both change genders.
(c) Their hair changes color.
(d) Their reflections in the mirror disappear.

10. Who tells the boy's father about Eddie's killing?
(a) Brigid.
(b) The boy's mother.
(c) Katie.
(d) Ena and Bernadette.

11. What causes the priest to call off Larry McLaughlin's wedding?
(a) Larry doesn't want to get married.
(b) Larry has cheated on this soon-to-be wife.
(c) Larry has become insane.
(d) Larry isn't ready to get married.

12. The famous shoot-out in 1922 was between which two groups of people?
(a) The police and the boy's family.
(b) The IRA and the boy's family.
(c) The boy's uncles and the IRA.
(d) The IRA and the police.

13. Why is the murder case of 1921 thrown out of court?
(a) The murder suspect disappeared.
(b) The evidence was tampered with.
(c) The murder suspect had a proven alibi.
(d) There wasn't enough evidence.

14. What is a specific characteristic of Brigid's behavior after the children disappear?
(a) She never leaves her house.
(b) She sings the children's song once a year.
(c) She pretends the children have never left.
(d) She skips wherever she goes.

15. 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?
(a) His father knows nothing of Eddie's disappearance.
(b) His father knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does anyone else.
(c) The boy knows more than his father knows.
(d) Liam knows more about Eddie's disappearance than does the boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Tony McIlhenny disappear?

2. What do people believe lay below the ruins of Grianan?

3. Who is Ena?

4. Who tells the boy that some families are devil-haunted?

5. Why does the boy's father hit him in Chapter 3?

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