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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Helen humming when she wakes up in the morning and starts to walk?
(a) Sanctus.
(b) Lacrymosa.
(c) Te Deum.
(d) Requiem.

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

3. Why had Helen turned down a sandwich at Jack and Clara’s?
(a) She cannot eat because of her tumor.
(b) She was ashamed of herself.
(c) She knew that Jack and Clara could barely afford food themselves.
(d) She was too proud to take food from them.

4. How long did Francis and Annie court before they married?
(a) A month and a half.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two years.

5. What does Francis ask a woman in the street in Chapter 6?
(a) Where he can get a jug.
(b) Where he can get a turkey.
(c) Where he is.
(d) Where his house used to be.

6. What image does Katrina’s poet have of her?
(a) A bird being chased by a hawk.
(b) A caged woman eating a rabbit.
(c) A serpent with long hair.
(d) A crow flying away from a poisoned squirrel.

7. The narrator says that even as Francis felt rich, he felt what other feeling?
(a) Forsaken.
(b) Broke.
(c) Dead.
(d) Miserable.

8. How does Francis characterize his mother?
(a) She only came to life when she was married.
(b) She died when she had sex.
(c) She had been dead all her life.
(d) She was always being killed.

9. What did Helen’s grandmother tell her she would do if she loved something?
(a) Set it free.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) Die for it.
(d) Kill it.

10. What food does Katrina serve to Francis?
(a) Compote.
(b) Fois gras.
(c) Gratiné.
(d) Crepes.

11. What year was Francis born in?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1916.

12. What dread does Francis say he associates with sex?
(a) Love.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Disease.
(d) Commitment.

13. What reason does Helen give, for abdicating from life?
(a) For exhaustion.
(b) For love.
(c) For lack of curiosity.
(d) For illness.

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

15. How did Helen’s mother use the money that should have been for Helen?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Her brother’s education.
(c) Travel.
(d) She spent it on clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen say is her lucky star?

2. How does Katrina characterize her life?

3. How much does Francis take in pay from Rosskam?

4. Why was Billy in trouble with the politicians?

5. How did Helen find out that her mother had betrayed her?

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