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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. What does Francis borrow of Jack’s?
(a) Pen.
(b) Razor.
(c) Journal.
(d) Toothbrush.
2. How does the narrator characterize Gerald’s eternal repose?
(a) Torment.
(b) Sublimity.
(c) Struggle.
(d) Abdication.
3. What does Francis say he would like to do to his mother?
(a) Confess himself to her.
(b) Strangle her bones.
(c) Ask her forgiveness.
(d) Talk to her again.
4. What urge does Francis have when he and Helen leave Jack and Clara’s?
(a) To run.
(b) To make love to Helen.
(c) To drink.
(d) To sleep.
5. How does the narrator say Daddy Big Dugan died?
(a) Stabbing.
(b) Old age.
(c) Inhaling his vomit.
(d) Jumped off a bridge.
Short Answer Questions
1. What image does the narrator say Helen presents to the audience at the Gilded Cage?
2. What accusation does the ghost of the first man Francis killed accuse Francis of?
3. What does Francis say about anything that “draws blood or breaks heads”?
4. How does Francis say he behaves when he is drunk?
5. Why does Francis work in the cemetery?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the presence of the dead in Francis’ present day experience, after shoveling dirt at the cemetery.
2. How did Francis’ father die?
3. How did Francis end up with a job shoveling dirt at the cemetery?
4. How is Francis feeling at the beginning of the novel?
5. What does Jack say Francis could have if he got straight, and what is Francis’ response?
6. Describe Francis and Helen’s visit to Jack and Clara’s flat.
7. When Helen says that she won’t go back to Finny’s car, she says that she might call her people. What is the irony in this?
8. What misfortune besets Helen after she returns to the Mission with Francis and Rudy?
9. What does Francis’ conversation with Rudy tell us about his relationship with Helen?
10. What effect is created by the author’s sophisticated vocabulary?
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