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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say Rudy is aware of as Francis approaches Gerald’s grave?
(a) Something momentous happening.
(b) The weather turning colder.
(c) The truck starting up, to take them back to the city.
(d) Francis going slightly insane.

2. What is Francis’ reaction when Rudy tells him he is frivolous?
(a) He insults Rudy genially.
(b) He gets angry.
(c) He clowns around.
(d) He retreats into enigmatic silence.

3. What does the narrator say is the real basis of the kinship the young Phelan brothers feel with Francis?
(a) Family.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Poverty.

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

5. Why does Francis work in the cemetery?
(a) To make money to pay a lawyer.
(b) To get Helen out of jail.
(c) To redeem his suitcase at a hotel.
(d) To get money for a place to stay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Francis say he would like to do to his mother?

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

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

4. Where is Dante’s epigraph from?

5. What does Francis say to Rudy when Rudy says that he ain’t dead yet?

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