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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the epigraph, what does Dante leave behind by hoisting sail with his wit?
(a) His darling children.
(b) His fair wife.
(c) A sea so cruel.
(d) His beautiful homeland.

2. What does the narrator say Rudy is aware of as Francis approaches Gerald’s grave?
(a) The weather turning colder.
(b) The truck starting up, to take them back to the city.
(c) Francis going slightly insane.
(d) Something momentous happening.

3. Where does Francis say his mother probably is?
(a) Limbo.
(b) Purgatory.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Hell.

4. Where does Francis sleep after he and Helen leave Jack and Clara’s?
(a) A barn.
(b) Finney's car.
(c) The weeds.
(d) The Mission.

5. Where does Helen sleep?
(a) Jack's.
(b) A flop.
(c) The Mission.
(d) Finny’s car.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did Francis go after the first time he killed a man?

4. Which of the seven deadly sins prompts Francis to get defensive?

5. How does Francis say he behaves when he is drunk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the importance of Halloween in the book’s setting?

2. What kinship does Francis have with the Phelan brothers?

3. How did Francis’ father die?

4. Describe the environment of the Gilded Cage.

5. What expression does Francis use when something is finally and absolutely concluded?

6. How does the narrator describe Gerald’s body in the grave?

7. What is Reverend Chester’s policy about drunks, and what effect does it have?

8. What does Francis’ conversation with Rudy tell us about his relationship with Helen?

9. What misfortune besets Helen after she returns to the Mission with Francis and Rudy?

10. How did Francis end up killing Harold Allen?

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