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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with Patricia Madigan?
(a) She has pneumonia.
(b) She has consumption.
(c) She has diphtheria.
(d) She has rheumatic fever.

2. Why does Angela believe that Frank was not accepted as an altar boy?
(a) He has not followed the rules in church.
(b) He has bad manners.
(c) He is too poor.
(d) He is not old enough.

3. Why does Frank miss his collection?
(a) His father is out drinking and cannot take him.
(b) He is not feeling well.
(c) His grandmother makes him return to church for a confession.
(d) His grandmother makes him stay home and help her with chores.

4. What does Frank think of the new baby's name?
(a) That it is "respectful."
(b) Frank doesn't care about the new baby's name.
(c) That it is an "affliction."
(d) That it sounds like a girl's name.

5. When Malachy gets a job, what happens the third week he is supposed to bring home the wages?
(a) He spends all of the wages on new clothes for the children.
(b) He is robbed walking home.
(c) He spends all of the wages on alcohol.
(d) He is fired.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Frank hospitalized?

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

3. What is Peter's punishment when he gets into trouble with his money?

4. What does Tommy Flynn say happened to Margaret's body?

5. What does Angela bring Frank in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you feel it was necessary for the McCourts, in Chapter 3, to move from the room on Hartstronge Street to Roden Lane? Why or why not?

2. What does Grandma's attitude towards first communion and first confession in Chapter 4 tell you about the role of Catholicism in their lives?

3. Describe the circumstances that lead the McCourt family back to Ireland in Chapter 1.

4. What does Frank miss most about the hospital when he arrives home in Chapter 8? Would you feel the same way?

5. Nora Molloy is often institutionalized in the asylum. How does she feel about these hospitalizations? How are Nora's plight and Angela's plight similar?

6. How does the reader see Frank's emerging sexuality in Chapter 8?

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

8. Why is Frank so reluctant to take dance lessons in Chapter 5, and why is his mother so insistent that he take them?

9. In Chapter 2, why do you think the officials at the St. Vincent de Paul Society are hesitant to help the McCourts?

10. Consider the image of Malachy placing a pint of beer on Eugene's coffin in Chapter 2. What does this image represent to you? What does it mean?

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