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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Agnes treat the children when they stay with her?
(a) She is welcoming.
(b) She is ecstatic to have children in her home.
(c) She is hostile and unkind.
(d) She is quiet and does not react to their presence.

3. Why does Margaret get angry with Frank and make him take Galvin's food to the kiln for free?
(a) Frank dropped the food and it wasn't good anymore.
(b) Frank sold the food.
(c) Frank went to the cinema instead of taking the food.
(d) Frank ate Galvin's food before he got to the kiln.

4. Why are the other boys laughing at Frank when he first reports for work at the Post Office?
(a) He brings his mother to work with him.
(b) He does not know how to do the job.
(c) He is dirty and his clothes are a mess.
(d) He shows up to work without being offered a job.

5. Why is Frank ashamed of Angela at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) She is drunk.
(b) Her dress is ripped.
(c) She is begging for charity at churches.
(d) She had disappeared overnight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Confraternity?

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

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

4. What is the poem Angela shares with Bridey, "The Man From the North," about?

5. Why does Angela believe that Frank was not accepted as an altar boy?

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