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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After receiving money from the Vincent de Paul society, why does Nora insist on going to the store with Angela?
(a) Angela will need help carrying the groceries.
(b) Angela does not know where the store is.
(c) She is worried the store owner will cheat Angela.
(d) She wants Angela to buy her some groceries.

2. 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.

3. What does Tommy Flynn say happened to Margaret's body?
(a) Margaret was given a proper Catholic burial.
(b) The body was cremated.
(c) Malachy sold her body for drink money.
(d) The body disappeared from the morgue.

4. How does Frank envision heaven at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) A place with plenty of food and music and dancing.
(b) A place where there is no rain.
(c) An empty place, like the inside of a coffin.
(d) A place without drunk fathers, with plenty of food, and with his other dead siblings.

5. What does Grandma mean when she says that she has "God in me backyard?"
(a) Frank has left his prayer book outside.
(b) Frank has thrown up his first communion.
(c) The priest has come to visit the family.
(d) The Pope's picture has been left outside in the rain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the family call the upstairs of their home Italy and the downstairs Ireland?

3. Why does Angela go to Malachy's job?

4. Why does Margaret get angry with Frank and make him take Galvin's food to the kiln for free?

5. What is the Confraternity?

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