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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Pa Keating feed the children in Chapter 10?
(a) When Agnes is not around.
(b) When the children have completed their chores.
(c) When he has extra money.
(d) When he is able to steal food.

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

3. Why is Frank nervous about delivering the telegram to Theresa Carmody's house?
(a) She has consumption.
(b) There are rumors that she is very mean.
(c) Her family has a reputation for drinking too much.
(d) She never tips the delivery boys.

4. 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) The family has no one to watch the children.
(c) Angela is in a terrible mood.
(d) She cannot pick them up from school.

5. Why is Paddy Clohessy's family doing well in Chapter 15?
(a) Paddy's father died and his life insurance policy was huge.
(b) Paddy and his father now work in England and send money home.
(c) Mrs. Clohessy remarried a rich man.
(d) Paddy won money gambling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Frank take on for Margaret?

2. While at the hospital, what do the doctor's discover about Frank?

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

4. How does Frank spend his tuition money?

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

(see the answer key)

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