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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Frank envy the children whose fathers are in England?
(a) The families usually move to England.
(b) The fathers send home money for food and necessities.
(c) They do not see their fathers.
(d) The children get to go visit their fathers.

2. Why does Angela tell her children to stay inside at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) The other families are bragging about the money their fathers sent home from England.
(b) There is consumption going around.
(c) The boys at school are bullying the younger boys.
(d) It is cold outside.

3. What does Paddy's father tell Frank about his mother in Chapter 6?
(a) She was always poor.
(b) She was a great student.
(c) She was an excellent dancer.
(d) She once dated a senator.

4. How does Frank spend his tuition money?
(a) At the cinema.
(b) At the baseball game.
(c) On alcohol at the pub.
(d) On dirty magazines.

5. What is the poem Angela shares with Bridey, "The Man From the North," about?
(a) Angela's happiness with Malachy.
(b) Angela's uncles in northern Ireland.
(c) Job opportunities up north.
(d) Frank's grandfather.

6. Why does Mickey die?
(a) He has consumption.
(b) He has pneumonia.
(c) He has typhoid.
(d) He is in a bad fight.

7. Where does Frank's transfused blood come from?
(a) The officers from the IRA office.
(b) His mother.
(c) Pat Sheehan.
(d) The Sarsfield Barracks soldiers.

8. Why is Angela angry at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) He has been arrested for drunken behavior.
(b) Malachy is out late drinking instead of coming home with his wages.
(c) He forgets to pick the children up from school.
(d) He i working late and she is worried.

9. What kind of teacher is Mr. Benson?
(a) Selfish and greedy, refusing to teach the boys about Catholicism.
(b) Devoted to his Catholicism, but hates answering questions about it.
(c) Quiet and timid, answering questions slowly and only when asked multiple times.
(d) Kind and nurturing to the boys and excited to talk about his faith.

10. Why does Quigley seem to annoy his teachers?
(a) His clothes are always dirty.
(b) He is always fighting with the other boys.
(c) He cannot read.
(d) He is always asking questions.

11. How is Frank able to attend the cinema at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Mikey throws a "fit" and distracts the ticket-taker.
(b) Angela begs the ticket-taker to let him in.
(c) Malachy gives Frank some money.
(d) Frank steals from Grandma's purse.

12. What is Mr. O'Neill particularly enthusiastic about teaching?
(a) American History.
(b) Biology.
(c) Euclid.
(d) Music.

13. Why is the family receiving less money at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) There is less money for the charity to give.
(b) With Angela's new job, the charity feels they do not need as much.
(c) Malachy had been drinking away all of the money.
(d) With two less children, the charity gives them less.

14. When Malachy gets a job, what happens the third week he is supposed to bring home the wages?
(a) He is robbed walking home.
(b) He spends all of the wages on alcohol.
(c) He spends all of the wages on new clothes for the children.
(d) He is fired.

15. Why does Angela go to Malachy's job?
(a) To visit her husband and bring him lunch.
(b) To show her children where their father is working.
(c) To apply for a job herself.
(d) To ask his boss to give her Malachy's wages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Angela and Malachy's first born son not named after his father?

2. Why does Angela insist on going to the Labour Exchange with Malachy after Oliver's death?

3. What happens to Macushla in Chapter 7?

4. What does Grandpa McCourt send for the new baby?

5. Why does Angela cry on the way home from Paddy's home?

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