Angela's Ashes chapters 1-2, Questions Chapter 1

1) How is Frank’s father, Malachy McCourt characterized in his life before children?

2) Describe Angela Sheehan, Frank’s mother before her children were born.

3) What difficulties did Frank experience early in his childhood?

4) Who is Margaret and what happens to her?

5) Why do the McCourts end up back in Ireland?

Chapter 2

1) How does Malachy’s family welcome the McCourts?

2) How does Angela’s family welcome the McCourts?

3) Name some of the many tragedies the McCourts endure in this chapter.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination