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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 Francis get for Sandra?
(a) Wine.
(b) A coat.
(c) Soup.
(d) A place to sleep.

2. What is Francis afraid will happen to Sandra?
(a) She will get sick.
(b) She’ll be arrested.
(c) The dogs will eat her.
(d) She will die.

3. What is the essence of Francis’ response when Rudy asks where they are going?
(a) They are bums, and don’t have anywhere to go.
(b) They are going into hiding.
(c) They are performing an important and mysterious errand.
(d) They are believers, and fate will take them where it wants.

4. What is William Kennedy using when he says that Helen’s money is the last twelve dollars of her life?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

5. What metaphor does Francis use to describe himself as a ball player?
(a) Hawk.
(b) Dog.
(c) Train.
(d) Car.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Francis characterize himself and Rudy?

2. The narrator says that even as Francis felt rich, he felt what other feeling?

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

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

5. How did Aldo Campione die?

(see the answer key)

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