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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Mikey tells Frank that the best part of the first communion is the collection. What is the collection?
(a) When neighbors give sweets and money to the children receiving their First Communion.
(b) Food collected for the charity.
(c) The money the students collect for the church.
(d) The money collected from the church members to feed the families.

3. How does Frank spend his tuition money?
(a) On alcohol at the pub.
(b) At the baseball game.
(c) On dirty magazines.
(d) At the cinema.

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

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

6. What is Mr. O'Neill particularly enthusiastic about teaching?
(a) Euclid.
(b) Biology.
(c) Music.
(d) American History.

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

8. Because they do not have bus fare home, where does the family sleep that night?
(a) At a friend's house.
(b) Inside a homeless shelter.
(c) In the police barracks.
(d) On the street.

9. Why do Frank's classmates laugh at him as they leave the store before Christmas?
(a) They cannot afford any groceries.
(b) The only meat they can afford is a pig's head.
(c) Malachy is drunk and stumbling home.
(d) Frank falls in the mud and is dirty.

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

11. Where does Malachy meet Angela?
(a) At a party in America.
(b) On the boat coming to America.
(c) In church.
(d) In Limerick.

12. Why is Frank's grandmother not speaking to Angela at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Frank lost his prayerbook.
(b) Frank was sick in grandmother's yard.
(c) Malachy lost his job again.
(d) Angela did not bring enough food for dinner.

13. What do Paddy and Frank eat when they go to Finlan's for lunch?
(a) Bread and jam.
(b) They are not fed.
(c) Potato soup.
(d) Scraps from last night's dinner.

14. Why is Frank afraid to go home in Chapter 6?
(a) His mother has consumption.
(b) There will be no food at home.
(c) His father found out he went to the cinema.
(d) He has learned that his parents know he skipped school.

15. What happens to Frank's brother Malachy on the playground?
(a) He is kidnapped.
(b) He falls off of the see-saw and injures himself.
(c) He slips in the mud and hurts his ankle.
(d) He fights with Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Frank miss his collection?

2. When Angela says that God has not been "seen lately in the lanes of Limerick," to what is she referring?

3. What does Grandpa McCourt send for the new baby?

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

5. What job does Frank take on for Margaret?

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