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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Frank stop working for Mr. Timoney?
(a) Frank gets ill and cannot work.
(b) Mr. Timoney passes away.
(c) Mr. Timoney is placed in a senior citizens' home.
(d) Mr. Timoney finds someone else to work for him.

2. Why is Mr. O'Neill called "Dotty?"
(a) He is small, like a dot.
(b) His middle name is "Dot."
(c) He has a large birthmark on his face.
(d) He is round, like a dot.

3. Why is Angela angry at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) He forgets to pick the children up from school.
(b) He has been arrested for drunken behavior.
(c) Malachy is out late drinking instead of coming home with his wages.
(d) He i working late and she is worried.

4. What is the Confraternity?
(a) A dancing class.
(b) An employment agency.
(c) A religious organization.
(d) A soccer club.

5. When Michael is sick, how does Frank's father save him?
(a) He sucks the mucus out of his nose so that he can breathe.
(b) He rushes him to the doctor.
(c) He and Angela take the boy to church to be blessed.
(d) He gives the boy a drink of beer to clear his sinuses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Malachy meet Angela?

2. How does the family get coal for Christmas dinner?

3. What is the poem Angela shares with Bridey, "The Man From the North," about?

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

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

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