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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Francis Phelan find his family’s graves?
(a) Among the flowing masses.
(b) Among the illustrious dead.
(c) In the unmarked graves.
(d) In the earth and sky themselves.

2. How does Francis describe Helen to Rudy?
(a) He says that he can’t wait to be finished with her.
(b) He says that she never gives him any peace with her nagging.
(c) He says that he can never tell where she is.
(d) He says that she’s the best woman he’s ever known.

3. What does Rudy tell Francis the doctor diagnosed him with?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Heart trouble.

4. What does Francis get for Sandra?
(a) Wine.
(b) A place to sleep.
(c) Soup.
(d) A coat.

5. What knowledge does Francis say he and Rudy share?
(a) The rights of homeless men.
(b) The etiquette of bums.
(c) The manners of wanderers.
(d) The chivalry of drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physically connects Francis to the memory of his son’s death?

2. Where does Rudy say Sandra came from?

3. How do Francis and Rudy characterize themselves?

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

5. What kind of cemetery are Francis and Rudy working in for the day?

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