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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the McCourts get back to Angela's family?
(a) Malachy finds a temporary job.
(b) The police take up a collection to pay their bus fare.
(c) The family begs on the street.
(d) Malachy sells his possessions.

2. Because they do not have bus fare home, where does the family sleep that night?
(a) Inside a homeless shelter.
(b) In the police barracks.
(c) On the street.
(d) At a friend's house.

3. Why does the man at the IRA office refuse to give Malachy money for the bus fare home?
(a) The IRA is completely out of money.
(b) Malachy also requested money for a pint of beer.
(c) The man believes that Malachy has enough money.
(d) The man is angry that Malachy wasted his time.

4. What does Frank's father tell the officials from the St. Vincent de Paul Society about their lavatory?
(a) The lavatory is too far away for the boys to use.
(b) They are very lucky to have a lavatory.
(c) Angela is the only who cleans the lavatory.
(d) It is killing them because it is infested with disease.

5. When told there is no work in Ireland, Malachy decides to go to Dublin. Why?
(a) Malachy's family lives in Dublin.
(b) He believes there is work there.
(c) There are better school opportunities for the children in Dublin.
(d) He has been told the IRA owes him money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the family call the upstairs of their home Italy and the downstairs Ireland?

2. Why do the children at school tease Frank and his brother about their boots?

3. When Malachy goes to the IRA office to claim his pension, what is he told?

4. Why does Angela go to Malachy's job?

5. After Eugene's death in Chapter 2, why does Frank get angry with his father in the pub?

(see the answer key)

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