Short Stories - Korea

Question 1

Give a quote about the boy dying

Answer 1

The boy tore at his tunic over the heart

Question 2

Give a quote about the furze

Answer 2

Furze pods bursting…shocking

Question 3

How many dollars when Luke killed

Answer 3

10 000

Question 4

Give a quote about moving hand across face when thinking about bad things

Answer 4

Tear a spider web away

Question 5

Give a quote about generational and educational divides

Answer 5

Sounds a bit highfalutin to me

Question 6

Give the last line

Answer 6

I watched as closely as if I too had to prepare myself to murder

Question 7

Give a quote showing feeling and Bildungsroman

Answer 7

The smell of shit and piss and the warm fleshy smell of worms

Question 8

Give a quote about knowing an end

Answer 8

I knew my youth had ended

Question 9

Give the context to Korea

Answer 9

McGaherns own father was distant and had fought in the Irish war of independence

Question 10

Where did mcGahern grow up

Answer 10

On a farm

Question 11

His father was a veteran of

Answer 11

The Irish war of independence