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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Francis’ feelings about the house he was born in?
(a) He wishes he could go back there.
(b) He wants to know what it’s like inside now.
(c) He doesn’t care if it falls down.
(d) He wants to burn it down.

2. What does Francis say he would like to do to his mother?
(a) Confess himself to her.
(b) Ask her forgiveness.
(c) Strangle her bones.
(d) Talk to her again.

3. What physical debility does Reverend Chester have?
(a) Clubfoot.
(b) Facial scars.
(c) Blind eye.
(d) Mangled hand.

4. What does Francis say to Rudy when Rudy says that he ain’t dead yet?
(a) You ain’t alive, either.
(b) You will be. You will be.
(c) It’s just a matter of time.
(d) That’s what you think.

5. What does Helen say she was doing while Sandra was dying?
(a) Singing.
(b) Enjoying herself.
(c) Praying.
(d) Sleeping.

6. How did Francis kill Dick Doolan?
(a) Suffocated him in a stream.
(b) Stabbed him with a fork.
(c) Smashed his skull against a bridge abutment.
(d) Broke his head with a stone.

7. How does Francis characterize Sandra’s life?
(a) It wasn’t human any more.
(b) It was redeemed as she died.
(c) It had become angelic.
(d) It was squandered.

8. What does Francis say about anything that “draws blood or breaks heads”?
(a) He regrets learning about it.
(b) He knows how it tastes.
(c) He has seen it in action.
(d) He has held it in his hand.

9. What do Francis and the others do with Sandra?
(a) Move her body into the Mission.
(b) Call her an ambulance.
(c) Leave her in the cold.
(d) Take her to a flop.

10. Where did Francis go after the first time he killed a man?
(a) Underground.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) North.

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

12. What does Helen lose on her way back to the Mission?
(a) Her show.
(b) Her purse.
(c) Her coat.
(d) Her keys.

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

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

15. How did Aldo Campione die?
(a) Fell from a train.
(b) He died of exposure.
(c) His neck was broken in a fight.
(d) Shot in the back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say came from Rowdy Dick Doolan’s head when Francis saw him in a vision?

2. What is Francis afraid will happen to Sandra?

3. How does Francis characterize himself and Rudy?

4. What is Francis’ reaction when Rudy tells him he is frivolous?

5. What does Francis get for Sandra?

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