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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Frank spend his tuition money?
(a) At the baseball game.
(b) On dirty magazines.
(c) On alcohol at the pub.
(d) At the cinema.

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

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

4. Why does Margaret get angry with Frank and make him take Galvin's food to the kiln for free?
(a) Frank dropped the food and it wasn't good anymore.
(b) Frank ate Galvin's food before he got to the kiln.
(c) Frank sold the food.
(d) Frank went to the cinema instead of taking the food.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the family move to Roden Lane?

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

4. Because they do not have bus fare home, where does the family sleep that night?

5. Why does Malachy believe he lost his job?

(see the answer key)

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