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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the epigraph, what does Dante leave behind by hoisting sail with his wit?
2. What is Francis afraid will happen to Sandra?
3. What image does the narrator say Helen presents to the audience at the Gilded Cage?
4. What does the narrator say is the real basis of the kinship the young Phelan brothers feel with Francis?
5. Where did Francis go after the first time he killed a man?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Rowdy Dick Doolan’s role in Francis’ story?
2. Describe the relationship between Francis and Rudy.
3. Describe Francis’ relationship with his mother.
4. What state is Sandra in when Francis, Helen and Rudy and Pee Wee return from the Gilded Cage?
5. Describe the presence of the dead in Francis’ present day experience, after shoveling dirt at the cemetery.
6. What does Francis say is the curve of Clara’s life?
7. Describe Francis and Helen’s visit to Jack and Clara’s flat.
8. How is Francis feeling at the beginning of the novel?
9. How did Francis end up killing Harold Allen?
10. Describe Francis’ baseball career.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The ending of the novel is ambiguous, but there are clues throughout the novel about whether it might be read optimistically or pessimistically. What indications does Kennedy give the reader about what to make of the ending? What conclusion do you come to about the conclusion?
Essay Topic 2
Who is the audience for Ironweed? What is the ideal reader for Ironweed likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 3
Would you recommend Ironweed? For what purposes would you recommend Ironweed, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
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