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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 Katrina characterize her life?
(a) A labor of love.
(b) A sacrament.
(c) Death in life.
(d) A prison.

2. What statement of Francis’ does Helen say is prophetic?
(a) That he never amounted to nothing.
(b) That he never knew how to take care of anyone.
(c) That he knows how to really live.
(d) That he’s always been a wanderer.

3. What does Francis say was always easier than coming home?
(a) Spending long days at hard work.
(b) Reducing yourself to the level of a maggot.
(c) Distracting himself with women and their needs.
(d) Letting his buddies take him out drinking.

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

5. The narrator says that Francis was “staunchly resolute” in the face of what?
(a) Suffering.
(b) The need to quit drinking.
(c) A knife attack.
(d) Capricious and adverse fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Skippy Maguire ruin his hand?

2. How does Francis characterize Helen in bed?

3. What explanation does Annie give Francis, for why she never said anything about him dropping Gerald?

4. What revenge did Helen get on her mother?

5. How does Rosskam demonstrate his strength?

(see the answer key)

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