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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Francis characterize his mother?
(a) She only came to life when she was married.
(b) She had been dead all her life.
(c) She died when she had sex.
(d) She was always being killed.

2. What song does Rudy begin to sing at the flop house?
(a) This Land is Your Land.
(b) The Star Spangled Banner.
(c) America the Beautiful.
(d) Big Rock Candy Mountain.

3. Where does Helen sleep after she and Francis leave Jack and Clara’s?
(a) Finny’s car.
(b) The Mission.
(c) The weeds.
(d) A flop house.

4. How does the narrator characterize Gerald’s eternal repose?
(a) Torment.
(b) Abdication.
(c) Sublimity.
(d) Struggle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What desire does Francis say he feels when Rosskam tells him about the women he makes love to during his rounds?

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

3. What does the narrator say the jungle is a manifestation of?

4. How did Francis become close to Katrina Daugherty?

5. How does the narrator say Daddy Big Dugan died?

(see the answer key)

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