![]() |
Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What causes the infestation mentioned in Chapter 3?
2. In June 1948, what does the boy witness?
3. What is a specific characteristic of Brigid's behavior after the children disappear?
4. Who gives a gun to the boy's father?
5. How does the boy's grandfather die?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the boy's grandfather tell him right before he dies?
2. Why is the disappearance of Uncle Eddie such a mystery?
3. How does the boy get rid of the rat problem?
4. How do we see the boy react and respond to his circumstances in Chapter 1 instead of accepting them at face value?
5. What local belief surrounds the Field of the Disappeared?
6. What memory does the boy have of an interaction between him and Crazy Joe?
7. How is the boy's father's life seen as very difficult and sad?
8. What happens to Larry McLaughlin?
9. How can we see in Chapter 2 that the belief in the supernatural is a powerful force in Northern Ireland during this time?
10. Why is the boy uncomfortable with the sympathy he feels for the police after Rory Hannaway's death?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who do you think is ultimately responsible for Eddie's death?
1. Is it the hand that pulls the trigger or the hand that orchestrates it to happen?
2. Are multiple people to blame?
3. Is one person more guilty than another?
Essay Topic 2
If you were the boy narrator, would you have kept the information you found out about Eddie's death a secret? The boy narrator does not reveal to his mother what he knows; would you have done the same? What might have changed if the boy had told his mother what he knew?
Essay Topic 3
Does the boy narrator experience any form of catharsis in the novel? If so, what level of catharsis does he attain? Explain.
This section contains 868 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
![]() |