View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the brotherhood that joins Francis and Rudy?
(a) It has never existed.
(b) It comes into being whenever Francis and Rudy drink together.
(c) It has been passed down since the beginning of time.
(d) They are the founding members.

2. What does Katrina ask Francis about her scar?
(a) Whether he can make it go away.
(b) Whether he knows how she got it.
(c) Whether he likes it.
(d) Whether he will kiss it.

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

4. How does Katrina characterize her relationship with Catholicism?
(a) She does not believe, but she performs the rituals nonetheless.
(b) She believes but does not observe the rituals.
(c) She cherishes but does not embrace the faith.
(d) She is charmed by the practices, but abhors the faith.

5. When did the confrontation with the scabs take place?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1901.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long have Francis and Helen known each other?

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

3. What is Francis Phelan’s father’s reaction to Francis’ arrival?

4. What did Helen’s grandmother tell her she would do if she loved something?

5. How does Francis characterize himself and Rudy?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 263 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample