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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Francis’ job when he was living with Helen?
(a) Baseball player.
(b) Trolley car engineer.
(c) Ragman.
(d) Fixit man.

2. What day of the year does Ironweed start on?
(a) Day of the Dead.
(b) Halloween.
(c) All Saints’ Day.
(d) All Souls’ Day.

3. How does Francis characterize his mother?
(a) She was always being killed.
(b) She died when she had sex.
(c) She had been dead all her life.
(d) She only came to life when she was married.

4. The narrator says that Francis was “staunchly resolute” in the face of what?
(a) Capricious and adverse fate.
(b) A knife attack.
(c) The need to quit drinking.
(d) Suffering.

5. What does Katrina say will cure all Francis’ troubles?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Sex.
(d) Travel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does Francis use to describe himself as a ball player?

2. How does Francis characterize himself and Rudy?

3. In the epigraph, what does Dante leave behind by hoisting sail with his wit?

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

5. What urge does Francis have when he and Helen leave Jack and Clara’s?

(see the answer key)

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