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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Frank provide food in Chapter 10?
(a) He borrows money from Grandma.
(b) He goes to Kathleen's store.
(c) Mikey Molloy's mother sends them bread.
(d) He steals it.

3. Why do the McCourt children laugh at Aunt Agnes while they are staying with her in Chapter 10?
(a) She uses a chamber pot.
(b) She has a wart on her face.
(c) She cannnot cook.
(d) She falls down the stairs.

4. What is wrong with Angela's health in Chapter 10?
(a) She has gone crazy.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) She is tired of working.
(d) Pneumonia.

5. When Angela says that God has not been "seen lately in the lanes of Limerick," to what is she referring?
(a) Frank's bad behavior.
(b) Their trip to Limerick.
(c) Malachy's chronic unemployment.
(d) Frank's illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does young Malachy run away from Aunt Agnes's home in Chapter 10?

2. How does Agnes treat the children when they stay with her?

3. Where does Aunt Aggie take Frank before he officially begins work at the Post Office?

4. Why is Frank nervous about delivering the telegram to Theresa Carmody's house?

5. Why does Frank feel guilty after Theresa is gone?

(see the answer key)

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