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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator characterize Gerald’s eternal repose?
(a) Sublimity.
(b) Torment.
(c) Struggle.
(d) Abdication.

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

4. What image does the narrator say Helen presents to the audience at the Gilded Cage?
(a) A monument to human endurance.
(b) Age and wisdom.
(c) A life hard-lived.
(d) Womanly disaster.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it in the present moment of the novel?

2. Why does Francis work in the cemetery?

3. What is Francis afraid will happen to Sandra?

4. What are Francis’ feelings about the house he was born in?

5. What does Francis say about anything that “draws blood or breaks heads”?

(see the answer key)

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