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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Francis’ mother’s reaction to his arrival in the cemetery?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Furious.
(d) Relieved.

2. What brotherhood does the narrator say Francis and Rudy have between them?
(a) Brotherhood of the ghosts.
(b) Brotherhood of bums.
(c) Brotherhood of the optimists.
(d) Brotherhood of the desolate.

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

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

5. How does Rosskam demonstrate his strength?
(a) By moving an anvil.
(b) By lifting his horse.
(c) By lifting his wagon.
(d) By lifting a barrel of metal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical debility does Reverend Chester have?

2. Whose kidnapping did Francis’ son Billy get mixed up in?

3. What does Francis say he would like to do to his mother?

4. Who does Francis see enter the bathroom with him in Chapter 3?

5. What does the narrator say the clouds resemble, when Francis is standing in the junkyard doorway?

(see the answer key)

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