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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is Eddie interrogated?
2. To what does Father Nugent compare murder?
3. Who also visits the boy's parents as he is there in Chapter 6?
4. When do the boy's parents meet?
5. The man with the baby sock said he would stop traveling on the bus after what happens?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Sergeant Burke's purpose for going to the boy's mother and revealing all that he knows of Eddie's death?
2. What causes the boy to realize his mother doesn't care what he reveals to anyone?
3. What information does the boy's mother find out after Sergeant Burke dies that makes her angry?
4. What happens to Jimmy and Claire?
5. How is the boy's mother's interpretation of the story of Sean and the baby sock a reflection on her own relationship with Tony McIlhenny and her role in Eddie's murder?
6. What does Sergeant Burke reveal about Eddie's death and Tony's involvement?
7. Describe the relationship between Tony, Katie, and the boy's mother.
8. What does the boy's mother say that upsets Katie?
9. Why is the boy again upset with his mother at the end of Chapter 5?
10. In what ways are the problems of Northern Ireland just beginning as the problems the boy faces are now ending?
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
Good vs. evil is an important theme in the novel. Show how three characters made the wrong decision in regards to Eddie's death and explain what they should have done differently.
Essay Topic 3
Foreshadowing is used multiple times in the novel. Cite three examples and show how they are used to indicate events that will happen later in the novel.
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