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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. Who is Danno Bredin?
(a) The boy's friend.
(b) Claire's father.
(c) Jimmy's brother.
(d) Young man in the navy.
2. Which of these statements about the local asylum is true?
(a) It has only male patients.
(b) It has a positive turnover rate.
(c) It has a reputation for cruel treatment of patients.
(d) It went under right after Eddie's disappearance.
3. What advice does Crazy Joe give the boy in Chapter 6?
(a) Read books.
(b) Chase girls.
(c) Talk to his mother about Eddie.
(d) Plant a garden.
4. Where does the boy go to university?
(a) Limerick.
(b) Belfast.
(c) Shannon.
(d) Dublin.
5. What happens to the boy's mother in 1968?
(a) She meets an old friend.
(b) She suffers a stroke.
(c) She goes insane.
(d) She gets in an accident.
Short Answer Questions
1. When do Eddie's parents die?
2. An army chaplain comes to the school to talk to the boys about what?
3. To whom is the boy attracted in Chapter 4?
4. Who also visits the boy's parents as he is there in Chapter 6?
5. Which character dies in 1959?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways are the problems of Northern Ireland just beginning as the problems the boy faces are now ending?
2. Why does the boy's evening with Irene prove to be a disappointment?
3. What is important about the boy's reading of the story of Eddie's death in Irish?
4. What is the boy punished for by the Dean and what is his punishment?
5. What does Sergeant Burke reveal about Eddie's death and Tony's involvement?
6. What does the boy recall about "unconditional love"?
7. What does Crazy Joe know about the mystery surrounding Eddie's death?
8. What is Sergeant Burke's purpose for going to the boy's mother and revealing all that he knows of Eddie's death?
9. What information does the boy's mother find out after Sergeant Burke dies that makes her angry?
10. What causes the boy to realize his mother doesn't care what he reveals to anyone?
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