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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Frank excited to see when he is hospitalized the second time?
(a) Seamus.
(b) Dr. O'Connor.
(c) Mikey.
(d) Nurse Rita.

2. What is the Confraternity?
(a) A soccer club.
(b) A religious organization.
(c) A dancing class.
(d) An employment agency.

3. What great change occurs in Mikey's father in Chapter 11?
(a) Mikey's father leaves his mother.
(b) Mikey's father has the consumption.
(c) Mikey's father decides to stop drinking.
(d) Mikey's father quits his job.

4. In Chapter 7, what does Malachy make his children promise when he gets them out of bed late at night after drinking?
(a) That they would go to work like him.
(b) That they would die for Ireland.
(c) That they would always protect their mother.
(d) That they would never drink.

5. What job does Frank take on for Margaret?
(a) Fetching coal.
(b) Delivering newspapers.
(c) Cooking dinner.
(d) Taking food to Galvin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Angela think Mr. Timoney lost his cleaning woman?

2. Why does Mickey die?

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

4. Why does Margaret get angry with Frank and make him take Galvin's food to the kiln for free?

5. What does Frank think of the new baby's name?

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