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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Katrina characterize her relationship with Catholicism?
(a) She cherishes but does not embrace the faith.
(b) She believes but does not observe the rituals.
(c) She does not believe, but she performs the rituals nonetheless.
(d) She is charmed by the practices, but abhors the faith.

3. What does Katrina ask Francis about her scar?
(a) Whether he will kiss it.
(b) Whether he can make it go away.
(c) Whether he knows how she got it.
(d) Whether he likes it.

4. How did Helen find out that her mother had betrayed her?
(a) Her father told her in a dream.
(b) Her aunt told her.
(c) She found her father’s will.
(d) Her brother told her.

5. What dread does Francis say he associates with sex?
(a) Commitment.
(b) Love.
(c) Responsibility.
(d) Disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Francis go after the first time he killed a man?

2. How familiar does Francis say trolleys are to him?

3. Why does Francis say he never committed suicide?

4. How did Helen’s father die?

5. What does Francis say about anything that “draws blood or breaks heads”?

(see the answer key)

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