Angela's+Ashes

1. Question - Why did Angela and Malachy McCourt marry in New York? Answer (page #) - Angela was pregnant.

2. Question - Why does Angela’s family initially view Frank’s father with suspicion? Answer (page #) - The Sheehans are wary of Malachy’s northern ways and “odd” manner.

3. Question - When Malachy comes home drunk, what does he tell his sons they must do? Answer (page #) - Die for Ireland

4. Question - Why is Nora Molloy’s husband, Peter, famous in Limerick? Answer (page #) - He is known as the champion pint drinker of Limerick.

5. Question - What image strikes Frank when he finds his father in the pub on the day of Eugene’s funeral? Answer (page #) - The sight of Malachy’s pint of black Guinness resting on Eugene’s white coffin.

6. Question - How many families use the public lavatory outside the McCourts’ home in Roden Lane? Answer (page #) - es 11 famili

7. Question - Why does Frank’s Grandma fret that she has “God in me backyard”? Answer (page #) - Because Frank threw up his Communion wafer in her backyard.

8. Question - In what way is Grandma’s lodger Bill Galvin unusual? Answer (page #) - He is a Protestant.

9. Question - Why does Angela think Frank is rejected from becoming an altar boy? Answer (page #) - She ascribes it to class distinction and social prejudice.

10. Question - What elements of his stay in the hospital does Frank enjoy? Answer (page #) - The clean sheets, good food, and books.

11. Question - Why does Angela think that the women in her street have a “low-class” mentality? Answer (page #) - They call out to their children to tell them what they are having for dinner.

12. Question - After which country do the McCourts nickname their second floor?. Answer (page #) - Italy

13. Question - Why does Frank find it difficult to condemn his father for his drinking? Answer (page #) - Frank remembers the cozy mornings he spends with his father in front of the fire.

14. Question - Why does Mr. Hannon have to retire from his job delivering coal? Answer (page #) - The sores on his legs restrict his movement.

15. Question - How does Frank spend his fourteenth birthday? Answer (page #) - Aunt Aggie buys her nephew new clothes for work, and Frank stands by the River Shannon and cries.

16. Question - What is Frank’s father’s first and only Christmas present to his family? Answer (page #) - A half-eaten box of chocolates.

17. Question - Why are the McCourts evicted from their home in Roden Lane? Answer (page #) - For owing four weeks’ rent and destroying an internal wall

18. Question - Why does the protagonist leave Laman Griffin’s house to stay with Ab Sheehan? Answer (page #) - Frank is angry about being cheated out of the use of Laman’s bicycle and is also disgusted by the fact that Laman is having sex with his mother.

19. Question - Why does Frank not take the post office exam? Answer (page #) - Frank decides to sacrifice the security of a boring job in order to follow his dreams.

20. Question - Why does Mr. McCaffrey tell Frank that he can only go up in life? Answer (page #) - Because Frank lives in a lane, the lowest standard of residence.

21. Question - What does a priest tell Frank after the protagonist confesses to hitting his mother and damning Theresa Carmody to hell? Answer (page #) - He states that God forgives him and so Frank must forgive himself.

22. Question - What is printed on the page that Frank is ordered to tear from all copies of the magazine //John O’ London’s Weekly//? Answer (page #) - An article on contraception

23. Question - What does Frank do with Mrs. Finucane’s ledger of debts after his employer dies? Answer (page #)-He throws it into the river shannon

24. What does Frank observe on his last night in Limerick? Answer (page #)-A lunar eclipse

25 . To what does Frank compare his arrival in New York? Answer (page #)-A movie