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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 Rudy say is Sandra’s last name?
(a) Sandra Eskimo.
(b) Sandra Easy.
(c) Sandra Get-me-another.
(d) Sandra There-ain’t-no-more.

2. What does the narrator say is in short supply on Halloween night?
(a) Fear.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Grace.

3. Who does Francis see enter the bathroom with him in Chapter 3?
(a) Dick Doolan.
(b) Helen.
(c) Jack.
(d) Gerald.

4. How do Francis and Rudy characterize themselves?
(a) Wanderers.
(b) Bums.
(c) Gypsies.
(d) Vagrants.

5. What does Rudy say his religion is?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Non-believer.
(c) Pagan.
(d) Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rudy say Sandra came from?

2. What does the narrator say about the brotherhood that joins Francis and Rudy?

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

4. What does Francis say is ‘standard survival currency everywhere’?

5. The narrator says that Francis was “staunchly resolute” in the face of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Francis say is the curve of Clara’s life?

2. 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?

3. Describe Francis’ baseball career.

4. Where did Francis Phelan’s family lie in the pecking order of the cemetery?

5. What state is Sandra in when Francis, Helen and Rudy and Pee Wee return from the Gilded Cage?

6. Describe the presence of the dead in Francis’ present day experience, after shoveling dirt at the cemetery.

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

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

9. What price does Helen pay for sleeping in Finny’s car?

10. How did Francis come to see Aldo Campione die?

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