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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the man at the IRA office refuse to give Malachy money for the bus fare home?
(a) The man is angry that Malachy wasted his time.
(b) The IRA is completely out of money.
(c) The man believes that Malachy has enough money.
(d) Malachy also requested money for a pint of beer.

2. Why do the children at school tease Frank and his brother about their boots?
(a) Frank's father has mended them using an old tire.
(b) They are wearing girls' boots.
(c) The boots are falling off of them because they are too big.
(d) The boots have holes in them and are falling apart.

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

4. Mikey tells Frank that the best part of the first communion is the collection. What is the collection?
(a) The money collected from the church members to feed the families.
(b) Food collected for the charity.
(c) When neighbors give sweets and money to the children receiving their First Communion.
(d) The money the students collect for the church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank confess at his first confession?

2. Where does Malachy meet Angela?

3. Why is Frank disappointed that his mother is not speaking to his grandmother in Chapter 5?

4. Why does it seem that Nora Molloy enjoys being taken to the asylum?

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

(see the answer key)

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