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.

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that. which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious. b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world. c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love. d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.