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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Angela tell her children to stay inside at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) The boys at school are bullying the younger boys.
(b) It is cold outside.
(c) There is consumption going around.
(d) The other families are bragging about the money their fathers sent home from England.

2. What does Malachy look like when he arrives home from England in Chapter 12?
(a) He has new clothes.
(b) Like he had been sick.
(c) He has put on weight.
(d) Like he had been in a fight.

3. Why does young Malachy have to visit Barrington's Hospital?
(a) Young Malachy has caught pneumonia.
(b) The older Malachy's dentures have gotten stuck in young Malachy's mouth.
(c) Young Malachy has drank some of his father's liquor.
(d) He has consumption.

4. How does Mikey get hurt?
(a) He trips and falls into the river, breaking his arm.
(b) The drainpipe he is on collapses, and he breaks his shoulder.
(c) He twists his ankle running away from Peter's mother.
(d) Peter beats him up.

5. What is Mr. O'Neill particularly enthusiastic about teaching?
(a) Biology.
(b) Music.
(c) American History.
(d) Euclid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Angela cry on the way home from Paddy's home?

2. Why does the man at the IRA office refuse to give Malachy money for the bus fare home?

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

4. Why do the children go to live with Aunt Agnes for awhile in Chapter 10?

5. How does Frank feed himself at Pat Sheehan's?

(see the answer key)

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