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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Agnes treat the children when they stay with her?
(a) She is welcoming.
(b) She is ecstatic to have children in her home.
(c) She is quiet and does not react to their presence.
(d) She is hostile and unkind.

2. Why does Frank want Angela's red flapper dress?
(a) To make hearts for their football uniforms.
(b) To give it to Patricia.
(c) To give it to Aunt Agnes.
(d) To sell it for food money.

3. What does Angela's note to Frank say at the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) It begs him to go back to work.
(b) It urges him to come home.
(c) It says that he should never return to Laman's.
(d) It asks him to go find his father.

4. What does Mrs. Finucane want Frank to do?
(a) Carry her bags of coal.
(b) Read to her.
(c) Write threatening letters to her customers.
(d) Walk her dog.

5. Why is Frank ashamed of Angela at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) She is begging for charity at churches.
(b) She is drunk.
(c) She had disappeared overnight.
(d) Her dress is ripped.

6. Why does Mikey call Frank a bastard in Chapter 11?
(a) Frank had relations with a girl at the pub.
(b) Frank's parents were not married when he was born.
(c) Frank and Mikey had gotten into an argument.
(d) Frank's parents were not married for nine months before he was born.

7. Why does young Malachy run away from Aunt Agnes's home in Chapter 10?
(a) He misses his mother and goes to see her.
(b) There is no place for him to sleep at Agnes's.
(c) Aunt Agnes hit him when he asks for food.
(d) He is angry with Frank.

8. What does Frank sell for ten pounds in Chapter 17?
(a) Forty copies of page 16.
(b) Five bags of coal.
(c) Bread and jam from Angela.
(d) Several new books about Ireland.

9. What does Agnes say at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Frank should go home to Angela.
(b) Frank should quit school.
(c) That Frank is doing more to help his family than his father ever did.
(d) That Frank is a fool for wearing a dress.

10. How does Frank provide food in Chapter 10?
(a) He borrows money from Grandma.
(b) He steals it.
(c) Mikey Molloy's mother sends them bread.
(d) He goes to Kathleen's store.

11. What does the Franciscan priest tell Frank about Theresa?
(a) He doesn't know where her soul ended up.
(b) Her spirit is haunting Frank.
(c) She must be in heaven.
(d) She must be in hell.

12. 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.

13. Who is able to visit Angela in the hospital when she is ill in Chapter 10?
(a) Mr. Timoney and Laman.
(b) No one is allowed to visit her.
(c) Margaret and Agnes.
(d) Frank and young Malachy.

14. Why is Frank at the pub celebrating with Mikey?
(a) Frank just got a job.
(b) Frank got an A in school
(c) Malachy returned home with money for the family.
(d) Mikey is turning 16.

15. Why is Frank fired from the post office?
(a) Frank was stealing letters.
(b) Mr. Harrington reports him for bad behavior.
(c) Frank was losing letters.
(d) Frank was not showing up to work on time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Frank get a new job in Chapter 16?

2. Which of the following items does Frank take from Mrs. Finucane?

3. What does Bridey tell Frank about his relationship with Mr. Hannon?

4. What does Frank sometimes do when Mrs. Finucane falls asleep?

5. What does Frank find when returning with Mrs. Finucane's sherry?

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