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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Benson have the boys practice for communion?
(a) The boys eat pieces of stale bread.
(b) Mr. Benson has the boys swallow bits of newspaper.
(c) The boys practice drinking alcohol.
(d) Mr. Benson gives the boys tea and cookies.

2. Why does Frank stop working for Mr. Timoney?
(a) Mr. Timoney is placed in a senior citizens' home.
(b) Mr. Timoney passes away.
(c) Mr. Timoney finds someone else to work for him.
(d) Frank gets ill and cannot work.

3. What is Angela's last resort for feeding the children in Chapter 9?
(a) Going to the dispensary.
(b) Going to work at Kathleen's shop.
(c) Asking Agnes to borrow money.
(d) Selling her belongings.

4. Where does Frank get a job at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) A pub.
(b) A cement factory.
(c) A potato farm.
(d) The butcher's shop.

5. Why does Angela believe that Frank was not accepted as an altar boy?
(a) He has not followed the rules in church.
(b) He is too poor.
(c) He is not old enough.
(d) He has bad manners.

6. What is unusual about Mr. O'Halloran?
(a) He sleeps in class.
(b) He likes America.
(c) He brings the boys food.
(d) He dismisses class early.

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

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

9. Why do Philomena, Delia, Mrs. Leibowitz, and Minnie write to Angela's mother?
(a) They want Angela's mother to come to America to visit.
(b) They want Angela's mother to take care of Frank.
(c) They want Angela's mother to convince Angela to leave Malachy.
(d) They want Angela's mother to send money so that Angela and her family can move back to Ireland.

10. While at the hospital, what do the doctor's discover about Frank?
(a) He must have his tonsils removed.
(b) He has gained weight.
(c) He has broken his arm.
(d) He has pneumonia.

11. Why is Frank disappointed that his mother is not speaking to his grandmother in Chapter 5?
(a) They cannot borrow sugar or tea from her.
(b) She cannot pick them up from school.
(c) Angela is in a terrible mood.
(d) The family has no one to watch the children.

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

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

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

15. What is wrong with Paddy's father in Chapter 6?
(a) He has consumption.
(b) He has pneumonia.
(c) He has left Paddy's mother.
(d) He works too many hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Angela says that God has not been "seen lately in the lanes of Limerick," to what is she referring?

2. Why does Frank envy the children whose fathers are in England?

3. What do Paddy and Frank eat when they go to Finlan's for lunch?

4. What job does Frank do with Pat Sheehan?

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

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