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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Katrina ask Francis about her scar?
(a) Whether he can make it go away.
(b) Whether he knows how she got it.
(c) Whether he will kiss it.
(d) Whether he likes it.

4. What had Dick Doolan’s job been, when he worked in the Tenderloin?
(a) Pickpocket.
(b) Cop.
(c) Gangster.
(d) Bouncer.

5. Why does Helen tell Finny not to touch her chest?
(a) She has money in her brassiere.
(b) Her scar is still healing from a recent operation.
(c) She is saving herself for Francis.
(d) She is in pain from her tumor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the clouds resemble, when Francis is standing in the junkyard doorway?

2. What does Francis say about anything that “draws blood or breaks heads”?

3. What does Helen say motivated her through her days?

4. What does the narrator say is in short supply on Halloween night?

5. How does Francis characterize Clara?

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