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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Francis Phelan’s family derived from?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

2. What does the narrator say Rudy is aware of as Francis approaches Gerald’s grave?
(a) Something momentous happening.
(b) Francis going slightly insane.
(c) The truck starting up, to take them back to the city.
(d) The weather turning colder.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rudy tell Francis the doctor diagnosed him with?

3. What does Francis say he would like to do to his mother?

4. Why does Francis work in the cemetery?

5. Where is Dante’s epigraph from?

(see the answer key)

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