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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Katrina tell Francis her poet sees?
(a) Things she has not shown to anyone else, even her husband.
(b) Things men should not see in women.
(c) Things she thought existed when in fact they did not.
(d) Things she learned to see about herself.

2. Who is remembered on All Saints Day?
(a) Babies who died before they were christened.
(b) All the people who are named for saints.
(c) People who have died.
(d) Martyrs who died for the church.

3. What year is it in the present moment of the novel?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1938.

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

5. What literary term describes the jump back to an earlier time at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) A historical narrative.
(b) Non-linear narrative.
(c) Flashback.
(d) Memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Francis imagine when Rosskam stops his wagon in Chapter 4?

2. What does Francis say was his mother’s attitude toward sex?

3. Whose letter is the only letter Francis has saved?

4. In Chapter 6, how does the narrator characterize Francis’ emotions when he arrives at Annie’s house?

5. Who does Francis recognize in King Brady’s saloon?

(see the answer key)

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