Excerpt from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt [1] My father and mother should have stayed in Now York where they met and married and where I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four. my brother, Malachy, three the twins, Oliver and Eugene, barely one, and my sister, Margaret, dead and gone. [2] When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood QUESTION 1 With what typical component of an autoblography does McCourt begin his story? An origin story A success A setback A defining moment

## Step 1<br />The first step in solving this problem is to understand the context of the excerpt from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt. The excerpt begins with McCourt discussing his family's move from New York to Ireland when he was a child. This is a significant event in his life, which sets the stage for the rest of his story.<br /><br />## Step 2<br />Next, we need to identify the typical component of an autobiography that McCourt is using in this excerpt. The options provided are: An origin story, A success, A setback, A defining moment.<br /><br />## Step 3<br />We can eliminate 'A success' and 'A setback' as McCourt does not discuss any specific success or setback in this excerpt.<br /><br />## Step 4<br />Between 'An origin story' and 'A defining moment', McCourt's story begins with an 'origin story'. He introduces his family and their move from New York to Ireland, which is a significant event in his life.