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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Francis say he would like to do to his mother?
(a) Ask her forgiveness.
(b) Talk to her again.
(c) Confess himself to her.
(d) Strangle her bones.

3. What does Gerald hope Francis will do after making this visit?
(a) Stop trying to die.
(b) Kill himself.
(c) Die in peace.
(d) Make new babies.

4. Where is Francis Phelan’s family derived from?
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) Italy.
(d) Ireland.

5. What does Francis say to Rudy when Rudy says that he ain’t dead yet?
(a) You will be. You will be.
(b) That’s what you think.
(c) It’s just a matter of time.
(d) You ain’t alive, either.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say Daddy Big Dugan died?

2. Which of the seven deadly sins prompts Francis to get defensive?

3. What does the narrator say is the real basis of the kinship the young Phelan brothers feel with Francis?

4. What day of the year does Ironweed start on?

5. What physically connects Francis to the memory of his son’s death?

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