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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor does Francis use to describe himself as a ball player?
(a) Train.
(b) Dog.
(c) Hawk.
(d) Car.

2. What is the price Helen pays for sleeping where she does after leaving Clara's house?
(a) Six dollars.
(b) Two dollars.
(c) She stays for free.
(d) A sex act.

3. What does Gerald hope Francis will do after making this visit?
(a) Stop trying to die.
(b) Die in peace.
(c) Make new babies.
(d) Kill himself.

4. How does the narrator say Daddy Big Dugan died?
(a) Stabbing.
(b) Jumped off a bridge.
(c) Inhaling his vomit.
(d) Old age.

5. Where did Francis tell the intern in Indiana his fingertip was?
(a) Buried.
(b) On a train.
(c) In the weeds.
(d) In a river.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Francis characterize Clara?

2. What had Dick Doolan’s job been, when he worked in the Tenderloin?

3. What does Francis say about anything that “draws blood or breaks heads”?

4. Where does Rudy say Sandra came from?

5. What does Francis say is ‘standard survival currency everywhere’?

(see the answer key)

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