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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Angela go to Malachy's job?
(a) To visit her husband and bring him lunch.
(b) To apply for a job herself.
(c) To show her children where their father is working.
(d) To ask his boss to give her Malachy's wages.

2. What happens to Frank's brother Malachy on the playground?
(a) He falls off of the see-saw and injures himself.
(b) He slips in the mud and hurts his ankle.
(c) He is kidnapped.
(d) He fights with Frank.

3. What does the "Angel on the Seventh Step" bring the family?
(a) New clothes for the children.
(b) A new bag of coal.
(c) Brother Michael.
(d) Eggs, butter, and sugar to make sweets.

4. How does the family get coal for Christmas dinner?
(a) Pa Keating takes the boys to a pub where the owner gives them a bag.
(b) Frank takes a temporary job shoveling coal.
(c) The boys stop and pick up pieces of coal on the side of the road.
(d) Malachy steals coal from the neighbors.

5. Why does Angela slide into a deep depression?
(a) She is depressed because Margaret died.
(b) She is sad because Malachy cannot hold down a job.
(c) She is depressed because Malachy is an alcoholic.
(d) She is miserable because she misses Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Angela believe that Frank was not accepted as an altar boy?

2. Frank's father, Malachy, originally comes to America for what reason?

3. Where were both of Frank's parents born?

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

5. Why does Angela insist on going to the Labour Exchange with Malachy after Oliver's death?

(see the answer key)

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