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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Billy in trouble with the politicians?
(a) They thought he was rigging the card games he ran.
(b) They thought that he was getting his father to vote against them twenty times.
(c) They thought he was in cahoots with kidnappers.
(d) They thought he was stealing from them.

2. What does the narrator say came from Rowdy Dick Doolan’s head when Francis saw him in a vision?
(a) Blood.
(b) Weeds.
(c) A glow.
(d) Birds.

3. How did Francis become close to Katrina Daugherty?
(a) He prevented her from going out of her house naked.
(b) He pushed her out of the way of a trolley.
(c) He painted her house, and did odd jobs.
(d) He worked for her for years, admiring her from a distance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Francis’ mother announce at Thanksgiving dinner after Francis was married?

2. What did Fiddler Quain do with Francis in 1901?

3. How does Katrina characterize her life?

4. What makes it possible for Francis and Rudy to eat at the Mission?

5. What does Helen say is her lucky star?

(see the answer key)

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