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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What had Dick Doolan’s job been, when he worked in the Tenderloin?
(a) Pickpocket.
(b) Gangster.
(c) Bouncer.
(d) Cop.

3. 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 know what it’s like inside now.
(d) He wants to burn it down.

4. What does Daddy Big say Francis’ son Billy did for him?
(a) Got him work.
(b) Gave him money.
(c) Kept him from choking when he was sick.
(d) Gave him a place to dry out.

5. What is Francis’ reaction when Rudy tells him he is frivolous?
(a) He insults Rudy genially.
(b) He gets angry.
(c) He clowns around.
(d) He retreats into enigmatic silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Aldo Campione die?

2. How does Francis characterize Sandra’s life?

3. What does the narrator say is the real basis of the kinship the young Phelan brothers feel with Francis?

4. What does Francis get for Sandra?

5. Who does Francis see enter the bathroom with him in Chapter 3?

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