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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Frank's classmates laugh at him as they leave the store before Christmas?
(a) The only meat they can afford is a pig's head.
(b) They cannot afford any groceries.
(c) Malachy is drunk and stumbling home.
(d) Frank falls in the mud and is dirty.

2. Why doesn't the telegram boy bring a telegram to the family?
(a) Malachy did not send any money home.
(b) Angela and the children were not home to receive it.
(c) The telegram boy was fired.
(d) The telegram boy had the wrong address.

3. When Michael is sick, how does Frank's father save him?
(a) He gives the boy a drink of beer to clear his sinuses.
(b) He sucks the mucus out of his nose so that he can breathe.
(c) He rushes him to the doctor.
(d) He and Angela take the boy to church to be blessed.

4. In Chapter 7, what does Malachy make his children promise when he gets them out of bed late at night after drinking?
(a) That they would go to work like him.
(b) That they would die for Ireland.
(c) That they would never drink.
(d) That they would always protect their mother.

5. What job does Frank take on for Margaret?
(a) Taking food to Galvin.
(b) Cooking dinner.
(c) Delivering newspapers.
(d) Fetching coal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Agnes say at the end of Chapter 14?

2. How does Frank spend his first wages in Chapter 15?

3. Why is Paddy Clohessy's family doing well in Chapter 15?

4. Where does the family stay when they are evicted in Chapter 12?

5. Why is Frank hospitalized for a second time in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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