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'Small Things Like These' by Claire Keegan

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  • Name the protagonist/main character played by Cillian Murphy?
    Bill Furlong
  • Complete the following quote "if you want to get on in life, there are some things you have to...?"
    ignore
  • Where is the story set?
    New Ross, Co. Wexford
  • What does Bill discover in the cow shed?
    A girl from the convent
  • Magdalene laundries were designed to "help" who?
    "Fallen women" or unmarried mothers
  • What is the name of Bill's wife?
    Eileen
  • Furlong had come from nothing. Less than nothing, some might say. His mother, at the age of sixteen, had fallen pregnant while working as a domestic for Mrs. Wilson, the Protestant widow who lived in the ___ house a few miles outside of tow
    big
  • Why is Bill afraid to speak out against what he sees?
    He is afraid of damaging his family's life/reputation
  • What does it mean to be 'complicit'
    helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way
  • How many daughter's do Bill and his wife have?
    Five
  • Name the woman who allowed Bill and his mother to live in her home.
    Mrs. Wilson
  • Who wrote the novel 'Small Things Like These'?
    Claire Keegan
  • What job does Bill Furlong have?
    Coal merchant
  • Whoo runs the convent in the town?
    The Church/The Nuns
  • Who says the following quote: “But if we just mind what we have here and stay on the right side of people and soldier on, none of ours will ever have to endure the likes of what them girls go through.
    Eileen
  • Name the man who was believed to be Bill's father.
    Ned
  • What happened to Bill's mother when she was a child?
    She passed away suddenly
  • During what time of year does the story take place?
    Christmas/Winter