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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is remembered on All Saints Day?
(a) People who have died.
(b) Martyrs who died for the church.
(c) All the people who are named for saints.
(d) Babies who died before they were christened.

2. What does the narrator say is the real basis of the kinship the young Phelan brothers feel with Francis?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Family.
(d) Poverty.

3. What makes it possible for Francis and Rudy to eat at the Mission?
(a) They are sober.
(b) They have money.
(c) They are homeless.
(d) They made reservations.

4. What trait does Helen say her mother and Francis’ mother have in common?
(a) They both educated them.
(b) They both kept them at home too long.
(c) They both lied to them all the time.
(d) They both despised them.

5. What does Francis tell Harold Allen he wanted to do, at the strike?
(a) Get justice.
(b) Get his job back.
(c) Raise a ruckus.
(d) Kill a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does the narrator say Helen presents to the audience at the Gilded Cage?

2. How does Helen prefer to think of her sins?

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

4. What turns Francis and Rosskam back in their rounds?

5. Where is Clara when Francis and Helen arrive at Jack’s flat?

(see the answer key)

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