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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) The winds in the grass.
(d) Birds chirping in the trees.

3. What is the essence of Francis’ response when Rudy asks where they are going?
(a) They are bums, and don’t have anywhere to go.
(b) They are performing an important and mysterious errand.
(c) They are going into hiding.
(d) They are believers, and fate will take them where it wants.

4. In the epigraph, what does Dante leave behind by hoisting sail with his wit?
(a) His darling children.
(b) His fair wife.
(c) His beautiful homeland.
(d) A sea so cruel.

5. How does the narrator characterize Gerald’s eternal repose?
(a) Sublimity.
(b) Abdication.
(c) Struggle.
(d) Torment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first man Francis Phelan killed?

2. What kind of establishment is The Gilded Cage?

3. How does Francis say he behaves when he is drunk?

4. How does Francis characterize Helen in bed?

5. What does Francis say to Rudy when Rudy says that he ain’t dead yet?

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