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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Francis Phelan find his family’s graves?
(a) In the earth and sky themselves.
(b) In the unmarked graves.
(c) Among the flowing masses.
(d) Among the illustrious dead.

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

3. What day of the year does Ironweed start on?
(a) All Saints’ Day.
(b) Halloween.
(c) Day of the Dead.
(d) All Souls’ Day.

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

5. Which of the seven deadly sins prompts Francis to get defensive?
(a) Envy.
(b) Greed.
(c) Cowardice.
(d) Lust.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Francis afraid will happen to Sandra?

3. What does the narrator say about the brotherhood that joins Francis and Rudy?

4. What makes it possible for Francis and Rudy to eat at the Mission?

5. What does Daddy Big say Francis’ son Billy did for him?

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