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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rudy tell Francis the doctor diagnosed him with?
(a) Heart trouble.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Cancer.

3. What image does the narrator say Helen presents to the audience at the Gilded Cage?
(a) Age and wisdom.
(b) A monument to human endurance.
(c) Womanly disaster.
(d) A life hard-lived.

4. What does Francis say to Rudy when Rudy says that he ain’t dead yet?
(a) You will be. You will be.
(b) That’s what you think.
(c) You ain’t alive, either.
(d) It’s just a matter of time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Francis go after the first time he killed a man?

2. Where does Helen sleep?

3. How does Francis describe Helen to Rudy?

4. What is the essence of Francis’ response when Rudy asks where they are going?

5. What kind of establishment is The Gilded Cage?

(see the answer key)

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