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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Francis and Rudy characterize themselves?
(a) Gypsies.
(b) Wanderers.
(c) Bums.
(d) Vagrants.

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

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

4. What physically connects Francis to the memory of his son’s death?
(a) The winds in the grass.
(b) Birds chirping in the trees.
(c) Tears dropping on his shoes.
(d) The sensation of his own awed astonishment at what happened.

5. What does Rudy say is Sandra’s last name?
(a) Sandra Easy.
(b) Sandra There-ain’t-no-more.
(c) Sandra Get-me-another.
(d) Sandra Eskimo.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Francis get for Sandra?

4. What year is it in the present moment of the novel?

5. How does Francis characterize Helen in bed?

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