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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the family receiving less money at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Malachy had been drinking away all of the money.
(b) There is less money for the charity to give.
(c) With Angela's new job, the charity feels they do not need as much.
(d) With two less children, the charity gives them less.

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

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

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

5. When Angela says that God has not been "seen lately in the lanes of Limerick," to what is she referring?
(a) Their trip to Limerick.
(b) Frank's bad behavior.
(c) Malachy's chronic unemployment.
(d) Frank's illness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What job does Frank take on for Margaret?

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

(see the answer key)

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