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

2. What does the quote "We don't care about England or France, all we want is the German advance" mean?
(a) The war is profitable for Irish families.
(b) There is better food in Germany.
(c) The war is good because the children can be soldiers.
(d) Germany is more powerful than England or France.

3. Why is Angela and Malachy's first born son not named after his father?
(a) The child is named for Angela's father.
(b) The child is given an American name.
(c) Malachy was drunk and the clerk writing the birth certificate did not understand what he was saying.
(d) Malachy is disgusted by his own name.

4. In Chapter 7, what does Malachy make his children promise when he gets them out of bed late at night after drinking?
(a) That they would always protect their mother.
(b) That they would never drink.
(c) That they would go to work like him.
(d) That they would die for Ireland.

5. Why does Angela tell her children to stay inside at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) The boys at school are bullying the younger boys.
(b) There is consumption going around.
(c) The other families are bragging about the money their fathers sent home from England.
(d) It is cold outside.