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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What image does the narrator say Helen presents to the audience at the Gilded Cage?
(a) Age and wisdom.
(b) A life hard-lived.
(c) Womanly disaster.
(d) A monument to human endurance.

3. How does the narrator characterize Rosskam?
(a) Severe and impatient.
(b) Tall and young.
(c) Filthy and broad-chested.
(d) Pudgy and short.

4. How does Helen prefer to think of her sins?
(a) As slips.
(b) As events.
(c) As decisions.
(d) As fate.

5. What brotherhood does the narrator say Francis and Rudy have between them?
(a) Brotherhood of the ghosts.
(b) Brotherhood of the optimists.
(c) Brotherhood of the desolate.
(d) Brotherhood of bums.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose kidnapping did Francis’ son Billy get mixed up in?

2. What does Francis say to Rudy when Rudy says that he ain’t dead yet?

3. Where does Rudy say Sandra came from?

4. What knowledge does Francis say he and Rudy share?

5. What metaphor does Francis use to describe himself as a ball player?

(see the answer key)

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