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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first man Francis Phelan killed?
(a) Donovan.
(b) Martin Daugherty.
(c) Iron Joe Farrell.
(d) Harold Allen.

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

3. What image does the narrator say Helen presents to the audience at the Gilded Cage?
(a) A life hard-lived.
(b) Womanly disaster.
(c) A monument to human endurance.
(d) Age and wisdom.

4. What is Francis guilty about, when he talks to Gerald?
(a) Abandoning his family.
(b) Dropping the baby.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Taking lovers.

5. What physically connects Francis to the memory of his son’s death?
(a) Tears dropping on his shoes.
(b) The sensation of his own awed astonishment at what happened.
(c) Birds chirping in the trees.
(d) The winds in the grass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Francis say his mother tried to do to the neighbors’ property?

2. How does the narrator characterize Francis’ mother’s reaction to his arrival in the cemetery?

3. Where is Dante’s epigraph from?

4. What does Daddy Big say Francis’ son Billy did for him?

5. Where does Rudy say Sandra came from?

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