How well do you know the novel, Evening Class? Answer these questions to find out and learn a bit more about the characters, along the way.

1. Aidan Dunne hopes to become the new Principal of Mountainview School, but what other candidate is there to the post ?
2. Signora can’t marry the love of her life, Mario, but instead she follows him back to his native Sicilian village and stays there. In which village does she spend many, many years ?
3. What is the name of the hotel the Leone family runs ?
4. When she returns to Ireland Signora befriends a girl who works in a café in Temple Bar who helps her find new lodgings in Dublin. After which rock-singer did the girl’s mother name her?
5. Signora gives Italian names to her pupils in the evening-class. Who is named Lorenzo?
6. Kathy Clarke is one of the hardworking students in Signora’s evening-class. She has the support of Fran who helps her with home-work and go to parent-teachers meetings for her sake. How is Kathy and Fran really related?
7. Signora’s best friend is Brenda Brennan, whom she grew up with and stayed in touch with during all her years in Italy. Brenda has a top job in a fashionable Dublin restaurant. Which restaurant is it?
8. One of Signora’s students, Lou who is called Luigi in class, has a bit of a dodgy past. What has he been up to in his former life ?
9. Signora organizes a festa all’italiana at the end of term before the whole evening-class go on their journey. During the party one of the students is trying to help her boyfriend’s mother by telling a lie to another person.Who is the student and who is the person she’s lying to ?
10. During the trip to Rome that the whole evening-class makes at the end of term, Signora stumbles upon a restaurant called Catania where her lover Mario’s son Alfredo works. He makes a suggestion to her. What is it he suggests to Signora ?