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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Francis characterize Helen in bed?
(a) A slippery eel.
(b) A sack of potatoes.
(c) A first-rate heller.
(d) A force to be reckoned with.

2. Who does Fiddler Quain tell Francis he’ll have to forgive?
(a) His traitorous hands.
(b) His baby for falling.
(c) Harold Allen.
(d) Himself.

3. How does Katrina characterize her relationship with Catholicism?
(a) She believes but does not observe the rituals.
(b) She cherishes but does not embrace the faith.
(c) She does not believe, but she performs the rituals nonetheless.
(d) She is charmed by the practices, but abhors the faith.

4. Why was Billy in trouble with the politicians?
(a) They thought he was in cahoots with kidnappers.
(b) They thought he was rigging the card games he ran.
(c) They thought that he was getting his father to vote against them twenty times.
(d) They thought he was stealing from them.

5. What does Francis imagine when Rosskam stops his wagon in Chapter 4?
(a) His wife living her days without him, not telling anyone what happened to Gerald.
(b) His parents moving into the house and raising him.
(c) The face of Harold Allen as he was hit with the rock Francis threw.
(d) His son slipping out of his hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Katrina characterize her life?

2. What image does the narrator say Helen presents to the audience at the Gilded Cage?

3. How does the narrator characterize Rosskam?

4. When did the confrontation with the scabs take place?

5. How did Aldo Campione die?

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