2. What job does Frank do with Pat Sheehan?
(a) Frank delivers coal with Mr. Sheehan.
(b) Frank sells newspapers.
(c) Frank cleans Mr. Sheehan's lavatory.
(d) Frank peels Mr. Sheehan's potatoes.

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

4. Why is Frank hospitalized for a second time in Chapter 9?
(a) He broke his leg.
(b) He has conjunctivitis.
(c) He has consumption.
(d) He has pneumonia.

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

6. What is unusual about Mr. O'Halloran?
(a) He likes America.
(b) He sleeps in class.
(c) He brings the boys food.
(d) He dismisses class early.

7. 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 die for Ireland.
(b) That they would go to work like him.
(c) That they would always protect their mother.
(d) That they would never drink.

8. Why does Angela think Mr. Timoney lost his cleaning woman?
(a) She was in love with another man.
(b) She went to work for Mrs. Finucane.
(c) Mr. Timoney did not pay her well enough.
(d) He had tried to convert her to Buddhism.

9. Why does Quigley seem to annoy his teachers?
(a) He is always asking questions.
(b) He cannot read.
(c) His clothes are always dirty.
(d) He is always fighting with the other boys.

10. In Chapter 2, why does Frank get in trouble with Mr. Benson at school?
(a) He is caught cheating.
(b) He steals some food from the other children.
(c) He is caught skipping school.
(d) He is fighting because the boys were teasing him.

11. How does Frank earn money from Mr. Timoney?
(a) He delivers coal to Mr. Timoney.
(b) He brings Mr. Timoney books.
(c) He reads to Mr. Timoney.
(d) He cleans Mr. Timoney's home.

12. Why does the man at the IRA office refuse to give Malachy money for the bus fare home?
(a) Malachy also requested money for a pint of beer.
(b) The man believes that Malachy has enough money.
(c) The man is angry that Malachy wasted his time.
(d) The IRA is completely out of money.

13. 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.

14. Where does Frank's transfused blood come from?
(a) Pat Sheehan.
(b) His mother.
(c) The officers from the IRA office.
(d) The Sarsfield Barracks soldiers.

15. 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) It is cold outside.
(d) The other families are bragging about the money their fathers sent home from England.