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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 Rudy say is Sandra’s last name?
(a) Sandra There-ain’t-no-more.
(b) Sandra Eskimo.
(c) Sandra Easy.
(d) Sandra Get-me-another.

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. How does the narrator characterize the effect of Francis handling things from his previous life?
(a) Disturbing.
(b) Uncanny.
(c) Delightful.
(d) Redemptive.

4. How does Francis characterize himself and Rudy?
(a) Fools.
(b) Lost.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Holy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is remembered on All Saints Day?

3. What literary term describes the jump back to an earlier time at the beginning of Chapter 6?

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

5. What does Katrina tell Francis her poet sees?

(see the answer key)

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