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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Katrina characterize her relationship with Catholicism?
(a) She cherishes but does not embrace the faith.
(b) She does not believe, but she performs the rituals nonetheless.
(c) She believes but does not observe the rituals.
(d) She is charmed by the practices, but abhors the faith.

2. What does Helen lose on her way back to the Mission?
(a) Her purse.
(b) Her show.
(c) Her coat.
(d) Her keys.

3. What does the narrator say is the real basis of the kinship the young Phelan brothers feel with Francis?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Family.

4. Where is Dante’s epigraph from?
(a) The Paradiso.
(b) The Purgatorio.
(c) The Inferno.
(d) The Vita Nuova.

5. What distinction does Michigan Mac make between himself and bums like Francis and Rudy?
(a) He is not a bum, he’s a hobo.
(b) He is not a bum, he’s a gypsy.
(c) He is not a bum, he’s a poet.
(d) He is not a bum, he’s a man of the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Aldo Campione die?

2. What does Helen say will happen to Francis if he leaves her on the street?

3. What does the narrator say came from Rowdy Dick Doolan’s head when Francis saw him in a vision?

4. Where does Francis sleep after he and Helen leave Jack and Clara’s?

5. What is Rudy’s attitude toward jail?

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