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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Frank take on for Margaret?
(a) Fetching coal.
(b) Delivering newspapers.
(c) Cooking dinner.
(d) Taking food to Galvin.

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

3. What does Frank read to Mr. Timoney?
(a) "A Modest Proposal."
(b) The Holy Bible.
(c) "Gulliver's Travels."
(d) "The Tempest."

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

5. Where does Malachy run away to in Chapter 10?
(a) Mikey Molloy's house.
(b) The land by the river.
(c) The home on Roden Lane.
(d) His grandmother's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Frank excited to see when he is hospitalized the second time?

2. Why is Frank fired from the post office?

3. How does Frank envision heaven at the end of Chapter 2?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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