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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Francis Phelan’s batting average in 1916?
(a) .256.
(b) .314.
(c) .405.
(d) .387.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Francis Phelan find his family’s graves?

2. What does Rudy tell Francis the doctor diagnosed him with?

3. Where is Francis Phelan’s family derived from?

4. Why does Francis work in the cemetery?

5. Where does Rudy say Sandra came from?

(see the answer key)

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