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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What knowledge does Francis say he and Rudy share?
(a) The rights of homeless men.
(b) The etiquette of bums.
(c) The manners of wanderers.
(d) The chivalry of drink.

2. What kind of cemetery are Francis and Rudy working in for the day?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Methodist.

3. Where is Francis Phelan’s family derived from?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) Ireland.

4. What is the essence of Francis’ response when Rudy asks where they are going?
(a) They are bums, and don’t have anywhere to go.
(b) They are going into hiding.
(c) They are performing an important and mysterious errand.
(d) They are believers, and fate will take them where it wants.

5. How does Francis characterize Clara?
(a) Sick.
(b) A good bum.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role had Dick Doolan played in Francis’ life?

2. What is the price Helen pays for sleeping where she does after leaving Clara's house?

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. The narrator says that Francis was “staunchly resolute” in the face of what?

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