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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Francis’ mother’s reaction to his arrival in the cemetery?
(a) Furious.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Delighted.

2. How does the narrator say Daddy Big Dugan died?
(a) Old age.
(b) Inhaling his vomit.
(c) Jumped off a bridge.
(d) Stabbing.

3. What does Daddy Big say Francis’ son Billy did for him?
(a) Gave him a place to dry out.
(b) Got him work.
(c) Gave him money.
(d) Kept him from choking when he was sick.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Francis and Rudy characterize themselves?

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

4. What kind of cemetery are Francis and Rudy working in for the day?

5. In the epigraph, what does Dante leave behind by hoisting sail with his wit?

(see the answer key)

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