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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Malachy gets a job, what happens the third week he is supposed to bring home the wages?
(a) He is robbed walking home.
(b) He spends all of the wages on new clothes for the children.
(c) He spends all of the wages on alcohol.
(d) He is fired.

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

4. How does Frank envision heaven at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) A place with plenty of food and music and dancing.
(b) A place without drunk fathers, with plenty of food, and with his other dead siblings.
(c) A place where there is no rain.
(d) An empty place, like the inside of a coffin.

5. Once the family rents a room, why are they unable to sleep that first night?
(a) Malachy is out drunk and the family is worried.
(b) The mattress has fleas.
(c) There is too much noise from outside.
(d) The heat does not work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Frank's brother Malachy on the playground?

2. What does the "Angel on the Seventh Step" bring the family?

3. Why is Frank's grandmother not speaking to Angela at the beginning of Chapter 5?

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

5. What does Frank do with the raisin he finds in his pastry?

(see the answer key)

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