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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rudy tell Francis the doctor diagnosed him with?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Heart trouble.

2. What does Rudy say is Sandra’s last name?
(a) Sandra There-ain’t-no-more.
(b) Sandra Get-me-another.
(c) Sandra Easy.
(d) Sandra Eskimo.

3. What does Helen say she was doing while Sandra was dying?
(a) Praying.
(b) Enjoying herself.
(c) Singing.
(d) Sleeping.

4. What does the narrator say about the brotherhood that joins Francis and Rudy?
(a) It has been passed down since the beginning of time.
(b) It comes into being whenever Francis and Rudy drink together.
(c) They are the founding members.
(d) It has never existed.

5. What is Francis guilty about, when he talks to Gerald?
(a) Abandoning his family.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Taking lovers.
(d) Dropping the baby.

6. What is the essence of Francis’ response when Rudy asks where they are going?
(a) They are performing an important and mysterious errand.
(b) They are going into hiding.
(c) They are believers, and fate will take them where it wants.
(d) They are bums, and don’t have anywhere to go.

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

8. How does Francis describe Helen to Rudy?
(a) He says that he can’t wait to be finished with her.
(b) He says that she never gives him any peace with her nagging.
(c) He says that he can never tell where she is.
(d) He says that she’s the best woman he’s ever known.

9. Where does Helen sleep?
(a) Finny’s car.
(b) Jack's.
(c) A flop.
(d) The Mission.

10. What urge does Francis have when he and Helen leave Jack and Clara’s?
(a) To make love to Helen.
(b) To run.
(c) To sleep.
(d) To drink.

11. Who was the first man Francis Phelan killed?
(a) Martin Daugherty.
(b) Iron Joe Farrell.
(c) Donovan.
(d) Harold Allen.

12. Where did Francis go after the first time he killed a man?
(a) Underground.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) West.

13. What does Francis say is ‘standard survival currency everywhere’?
(a) Violence.
(b) Money.
(c) Buddies.
(d) Fornication.

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

15. Where does Francis say his mother probably is?
(a) Limbo.
(b) Purgatory.
(c) Hell.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Aldo Campione die?

2. What accusation does the ghost of the first man Francis killed accuse Francis of?

3. What brotherhood does the narrator say Francis and Rudy have between them?

4. When did the confrontation with the scabs take place?

5. How long have Francis and Helen known each other?

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