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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does Keats give Francis about seeing?
(a) Make sure you learn the thing that you didn’t see at first glance.
(b) Don’t make any decisions until you have seen as much as possible.
(c) Be careful not to see too much.
(d) Trust your eyes to deceive you, so pay close attention so they don’t.

2. What day of the year does Ironweed start on?
(a) Halloween.
(b) All Saints’ Day.
(c) All Souls’ Day.
(d) Day of the Dead.

3. What physically connects Francis to the memory of his son’s death?
(a) The winds in the grass.
(b) Tears dropping on his shoes.
(c) The sensation of his own awed astonishment at what happened.
(d) Birds chirping in the trees.

4. What does Francis say about anything that “draws blood or breaks heads”?
(a) He has held it in his hand.
(b) He has seen it in action.
(c) He regrets learning about it.
(d) He knows how it tastes.

5. What kind of cemetery are Francis and Rudy working in for the day?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Jewish.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What role had Dick Doolan played in Francis’ life?

3. In the epigraph, what does Dante leave behind by hoisting sail with his wit?

4. What does Francis protect Katrina Daugherty from?

5. How do Francis and Rudy characterize themselves?

(see the answer key)

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