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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 describe Helen to Rudy?
(a) He says that he can never tell where she is.
(b) He says that he can’t wait to be finished with her.
(c) He says that she’s the best woman he’s ever known.
(d) He says that she never gives him any peace with her nagging.

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

3. What was Francis’ job when he was living with Helen?
(a) Trolley car engineer.
(b) Ragman.
(c) Fixit man.
(d) Baseball player.

4. What does the narrator say Rudy is aware of as Francis approaches Gerald’s grave?
(a) The weather turning colder.
(b) Francis going slightly insane.
(c) The truck starting up, to take them back to the city.
(d) Something momentous happening.

5. How does Francis say he behaves when he is drunk?
(a) He goes to sleep.
(b) He gets sentimental.
(c) He gets violent.
(d) He gets sick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is William Kennedy using when he says that Helen’s money is the last twelve dollars of her life?

2. How does Francis characterize his mother?

3. What does the narrator say about the brotherhood that joins Francis and Rudy?

4. What does Francis say is ‘standard survival currency everywhere’?

5. What is Helen humming when she wakes up in the morning and starts to walk?

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