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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What urge does Francis have when he and Helen leave Jack and Clara’s?
2. What kind of cemetery are Francis and Rudy working in for the day?
3. What is Francis’ reaction when Rudy tells him he is frivolous?
4. Where does Helen sleep after she and Francis leave Jack and Clara’s?
5. How does Francis describe Helen to Rudy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What state is Sandra in when Francis, Helen and Rudy and Pee Wee return from the Gilded Cage?
2. What misfortune besets Helen after she returns to the Mission with Francis and Rudy?
3. What price does Helen pay for sleeping in Finny’s car?
4. 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?
5. What kinship does Francis have with the Phelan brothers?
6. How did Francis’ father die?
7. How did Francis end up killing Harold Allen?
8. How did Francis come to see Aldo Campione die?
9. Describe the brotherhood Francis and Rudy share.
10. What expression does Francis use when something is finally and absolutely concluded?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The American novel is typically centered on a character who believes in a fundamental innocence, and goes into the world to have experiences and find him or herself—but Ironweed is centered on Francis’ guilt over any number of things. How does Ironweed fit in the American canon?
Essay Topic 2
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
Debate the proposition that Francis has redeemed his flight from home and family by turning flight into a philosophy.
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