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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grandma mean when she says that she has "God in me backyard?"
(a) The priest has come to visit the family.
(b) Frank has thrown up his first communion.
(c) Frank has left his prayer book outside.
(d) The Pope's picture has been left outside in the rain.

2. What does Frank do with the raisin he finds in his pastry?
(a) He throws it away.
(b) He gives it to Paddy Clohessy.
(c) He teases the other boys with it.
(d) Frank hides it so he can give it to his mother.

3. What does Frank confess at his first confession?
(a) He was thinking dirty thoughts about girls.
(b) He was disrespectful to his mother.
(c) He was drinking in the alley after school.
(d) He was listening to dirty stories.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Paddy's father in Chapter 6?

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

3. What does Frank's father tell the officials from the St. Vincent de Paul Society about their lavatory?

4. Why does the family move to Roden Lane?

5. Why does it seem that Nora Molloy enjoys being taken to the asylum?

(see the answer key)

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