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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Malachy agree to go work in England?
(a) Angela wants to move there.
(b) America has joined the war.
(c) His father is living in England.
(d) He is tired of Ireland.

4. Why does Mr. Downes return to Ireland?
(a) To attend his mother's funeral.
(b) To retire.
(c) For a summer vacation.
(d) To see Frank.

5. Why does Angela slide into a deep depression?
(a) She is depressed because Malachy is an alcoholic.
(b) She is depressed because Margaret died.
(c) She is sad because Malachy cannot hold down a job.
(d) She is miserable because she misses Ireland.

6. Why does the family call the upstairs of their home Italy and the downstairs Ireland?
(a) The downstairs has flooded and the upstairs is warm, like a vacation to Italy.
(b) The upstairs is cold and dirty, and the downstairs is where they spend their time.
(c) The downstairs reminds them of home, while upstairs is unfamiliar.
(d) The children made up the names because both places begin with the same letter.

7. Why does Malachy believe he lost his job?
(a) Because Angela came to his work.
(b) He was not able to perform the duties of the job.
(c) He was late to work.
(d) Because he has been drinking on the job.

8. 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) He i working late and she is worried.
(d) Malachy is out late drinking instead of coming home with his wages.

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

10. What does Frank's father tell the officials from the St. Vincent de Paul Society about their lavatory?
(a) It is killing them because it is infested with disease.
(b) The lavatory is too far away for the boys to use.
(c) Angela is the only who cleans the lavatory.
(d) They are very lucky to have a lavatory.

11. Why does Mr. Downes believe Malachy may be sent back to Ireland in Chapter 9?
(a) Malachy misses his family.
(b) Malachy drinks too much.
(c) Malachy can get better work in Ireland.
(d) Malachy has been arrested.

12. What does the "Angel on the Seventh Step" bring the family?
(a) Eggs, butter, and sugar to make sweets.
(b) Brother Michael.
(c) A new bag of coal.
(d) New clothes for the children.

13. Once the family rents a room, why are they unable to sleep that first night?
(a) The heat does not work.
(b) There is too much noise from outside.
(c) The mattress has fleas.
(d) Malachy is out drunk and the family is worried.

14. 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) He had tried to convert her to Buddhism.
(d) Mr. Timoney did not pay her well enough.

15. What kind of lessons does Angela decide Frank must take?
(a) Gaelic lessons.
(b) Irish dancing lessons.
(c) Reading lessons.
(d) Violin lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter Dooley want to do when he grows up?

2. Why is Frank afraid to go home in Chapter 6?

3. Why do Frank's classmates laugh at him as they leave the store before Christmas?

4. Why does Angela cry on the way home from Paddy's home?

5. After Eugene's death in Chapter 2, why does Frank get angry with his father in the pub?

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