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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the light above the graves of Francis and Frances' parents?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

2. What do the boy's parents suggest he should have done instead of involving Sergeant Burke when he was being bullied?
(a) They said he should have just taken the punches.
(b) They said he should have run away.
(c) They said he should have stood up for himself.
(d) They said he should have talked the bully out of fighting.

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

4. Who tells the boy that some families are devil-haunted?
(a) Frances.
(b) Bernadette.
(c) Katie.
(d) Brigid.

5. Chapter 3 opens with the narrator talking about the neighborhood having what kind of infestation problem?
(a) Rats.
(b) Mice.
(c) Roaches.
(d) Bees.

6. Who tells the boy about the murder of 1921?
(a) Neil McLaughlin.
(b) Rory Hannaway.
(c) Brother Regan.
(d) Billy Mahon.

7. Where are the boy's father's sisters sent to live after the death of their parents?
(a) Their grandfather.
(b) Their mother's sister.
(c) Their brother.
(d) Their father's brother.

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

9. Who is hired to look after the two children, Francis and Frances?
(a) Katie McIlhenny.
(b) Una.
(c) Aunt Bernadette.
(d) Brigid McLaughlin.

10. What happens to the distillery after the shootout?
(a) It is rebuilt.
(b) It floods.
(c) It is shutdown.
(d) It explodes.

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

12. How does Rory Hannaway die?
(a) Contracted meningitis.
(b) Drowned in the river.
(c) Beaten to death by thieves.
(d) Killed by a reversing lorry.

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

14. What do Frances and Francis do every day?
(a) Put on costumes.
(b) Sing songs.
(c) Put flowers on their parents' graves.
(d) Play in the Field of the Disappeared.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the boy's mother lie to Katie about why the boy's father started drinking again?

2. Who is Billy Mahon?

3. From where does the title of the novel get its name?

4. From which part of the traditions of both Protestants and Catholics does the boy derive excitement?

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

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