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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy's grandfather reveal about Eddie in Chapter 3?
(a) Eddie died in a warehouse fire.
(b) Eddie was set up.
(c) Eddie was an informer.
(d) Eddie left for America.

2. Who is Ena?
(a) The boy's grandmother.
(b) The boy's father's sister.
(c) The boy's sister.
(d) The boy's mother's sister.

3. Why is the boys' mother upset when they return from their boat ride across the river?
(a) She didn't have enough time to prepare dinner.
(b) She knows her husband told the boys about Eddie.
(c) She didn't expect them to return so soon.
(d) She didn't want the boys on the river.

4. In October of 1952, where is the boy sent to live?
(a) With a neighbor.
(b) With his grandfather.
(c) With one of his aunts.
(d) With one of his uncles.

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

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

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

8. What does "The Shan Van Vocht" mean?
(a) The Poor Old Woman.
(b) The Land of Poverty.
(c) The Lovely Dark Land.
(d) The Conflict of Past.

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

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

11. How does the boy describe how he got rid of the infestation in Chapter 3?
(a) He flooded the nests.
(b) He hired an exterminator.
(c) He had the dogs eat them.
(d) He threw burning rags on them.

12. Where does Tony McIlhenny disappear to?
(a) England.
(b) Poland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) America.

13. How does the boy's grandfather die?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A stroke.
(c) An accident.
(d) Old age.

14. 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 talked the bully out of fighting.
(b) They said he should have just taken the punches.
(c) They said he should have stood up for himself.
(d) They said he should have run away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which three males are attacked at the end of the chapter?

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

3. What is going to be built across the river?

4. Why do the boy's father's drinking binges stop between 1920 and 1926?

5. Who is hired to look after the two children, Francis and Frances?

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