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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Peter move when he left the Logan boarding house?

2. Where did Dunphy's wife and children go?

3. What was the name of the professor of Frank's Introduction to Literature class?

4. How old was Hannah, Mrs. Austin's sister, when she married an Irishman?

5. What was the name of Frank's church in Limerick?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Frank took lemon meringue pie and ginger ale to watch Hamlet at a playhouse?

2. How did Frank get to New York City when the ship docked in Albany?

3. How did the captain learn about the incident at the refugee camp, and what did he do about it?

4. How did Frank get the grease off his fatigues after he had KP duty?

5. Why did Horace and Frank almost die in a fumigation room?

6. Why, when Frank had ten more days of his furlough, did he wish that he only had ten minutes?

7. Why was Eddie Gilligan so cold to his brother, Joe?

8. What caused problems between Frank and Emer?

9. Why wasn't Corporal Dunphy kicked out of the army long ago?

10. What did Mr. Herbert say to Frank and the class when Frank wrote about Jonathan Swift?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When he went to Limerick, Frank was surprised to see that his mother was taking him to his grandmother's house rather than the new house. Discuss why his mother had not moved to the new house.

Essay Topic 2

Compare how Frank and Mike spent their childhoods.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Frank's emotions the first Christmas that he spent in America.

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