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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Francis characterize his mother?
(a) She was always being killed.
(b) She only came to life when she was married.
(c) She had been dead all her life.
(d) She died when she had sex.

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

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

4. How did Katrina die?
(a) An accident.
(b) In a fire.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Childbirth.

5. The narrator says that even as Francis felt rich, he felt what other feeling?
(a) Miserable.
(b) Broke.
(c) Dead.
(d) Forsaken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Francis’ job when he was living with Helen?

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

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

4. How does the narrator characterize the effect of Francis handling things from his previous life?

5. How does the narrator characterize Francis’ mother’s reaction to his arrival in the cemetery?

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