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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Father Nugent compare murder?
(a) Disobeying your parents.
(b) Sex without love.
(c) Hating your brother.
(d) Stealing.

2. How does his mother's body change after what happens to her in 1968?
(a) She loses her hearing.
(b) She loses a limb.
(c) She goes blind.
(d) She loses the ability to speak.

3. Who was McIlhenny involved with before he marries Katie?
(a) Ena.
(b) Bernadette.
(c) The boy's mother.
(d) Brigid.

4. What passages of scripture does the boy find intriguing?
(a) The ones about good and evil.
(b) The law of the Old Testament.
(c) The gospel parables.
(d) The prophecies of revelation.

5. In September 1954, the boy's teacher asks several unanswerable questions in which class?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Language.
(c) Religion.
(d) Geography.

6. When Sergeant Burke comes to talk to the boy's mother, what does he reveal as his reason for beating her husband?
(a) He thought Frank was guilty at the time.
(b) He had evidence that Frank was involved in Eddie's death.
(c) Self-defense.
(d) To keep Frank out of jail.

7. Why does the boy not tell his mother everything he knows about Eddie's death?
(a) He is afraid of her reaction.
(b) He thinks that she already knows the truth but is hiding it.
(c) He doesn't think she deserves to know.
(d) He thinks she is too sensitive to handle the truth.

8. In what language does the boy write the final copy?
(a) French.
(b) Irish.
(c) German.
(d) English.

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

10. What happens to the boy's father right before he retires?
(a) He dies.
(b) He reveals everything about Eddie's death.
(c) He suffers a heart attack.
(d) He goes missing.

11. What does the boy write down in the exercise book?
(a) An essay for school.
(b) The story of Brigid.
(c) An apology letter.
(d) The details of Eddie's death.

12. The man with the baby sock said he would stop traveling on the bus after what happens?
(a) After he reaches his destination.
(b) After he runs out of bus money.
(c) After he finds the owner of the sock.
(d) After he finds the other sock.

13. Who teaches the boy about sex?
(a) His father.
(b) Father Nugent.
(c) His mother.
(d) Brother Regan.

14. What eventually happens to Danno?
(a) He moves away.
(b) He returns to the military.
(c) He becomes ill and dies.
(d) He starts a new family.

15. How does the boy's father die?
(a) An accident.
(b) An aneurysm.
(c) A second heart attack.
(d) Fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy conclude about his mother during Chapter 5?

2. What does the boy think happened to Eddie in the secret passage of Grianan?

3. According to Chapter 6, what was Tony's job before he disappeared?

4. What happens to the boy's mother after she stops taking the medicine?

5. At the very end of the book, what does the narrator think he hears as he is going down the stairs?

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