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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 Rosskam?
(a) Severe and impatient.
(b) Tall and young.
(c) Filthy and broad-chested.
(d) Pudgy and short.

2. What does the narrator say is in short supply on Halloween night?
(a) Fear.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Grace.
(d) Temperance.

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

4. What are Francis’ feelings about the house he was born in?
(a) He doesn’t care if it falls down.
(b) He wants to know what it’s like inside now.
(c) He wants to burn it down.
(d) He wishes he could go back there.

5. What does Francis get for Sandra?
(a) Soup.
(b) A coat.
(c) A place to sleep.
(d) Wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dante’s epigraph from?

2. What makes it possible for Francis and Rudy to eat at the Mission?

3. What is Francis guilty about, when he talks to Gerald?

4. What was Francis Phelan’s batting average in 1916?

5. What had Dick Doolan’s job been, when he worked in the Tenderloin?

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