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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Francis say his mother tried to do to the neighbors’ property?
(a) Poison their dog.
(b) Kill their tree.
(c) Break their windows.
(d) Wall out their noise.

2. What year is it in the present moment of the novel?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1916.

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

4. How does Francis characterize himself and Rudy?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Holy.
(c) Fools.
(d) Lost.

5. What pitch does Francis teach Daniel to throw?
(a) A curveball.
(b) A knuckleball.
(c) An outshoot.
(d) An inshoot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does Katrina’s poet have of her?

2. What is the essence of Francis’ response when Rudy asks where they are going?

3. What kind of establishment is The Gilded Cage?

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

5. What does Francis say he connects scars to?

(see the answer key)

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