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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Francis’ feelings about the house he was born in?
(a) He wishes he could go back there.
(b) He doesn’t care if it falls down.
(c) He wants to burn it down.
(d) He wants to know what it’s like inside now.

2. What does the narrator say is in short supply on Halloween night?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Grace.
(c) Fear.
(d) Temperance.

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

4. What makes it possible for Francis and Rudy to eat at the Mission?
(a) They are homeless.
(b) They are sober.
(c) They have money.
(d) They made reservations.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What brotherhood does the narrator say Francis and Rudy have between them?

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

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

5. How does Francis describe Helen to Rudy?

(see the answer key)

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