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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Billy Mahon?
(a) He is pushed off the bridge.
(b) He is robbed.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is framed for murder.

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

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

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

5. How old was the boy's father when he was left in charge of the family?
(a) 12.
(b) 17.
(c) 14.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the boy's grandfather die?

2. What does Sergeant Burke suggest to the boy as he gives him a ride home?

3. Why is the boys' mother upset when they return from their boat ride across the river?

4. What is the subject of most of the songs the Catholics sing on the Feast of Assumption?

5. What do Frances and Francis do every day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Tony and what happened to him?

2. Why is the disappearance of Uncle Eddie such a mystery?

3. What happens to Larry McLaughlin?

4. What memory does the boy have of an interaction between him and Crazy Joe?

5. Describe Crazy Joe.

6. Why is the boy narrator fond of Aunt Katie?

7. How is the boy's father's life seen as very difficult and sad?

8. The theme of disappearance is further discussed in Chapter 2. Explain.

9. What happens to Frances and Francis?

10. Describe the narrator.

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