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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Francis say he wants from his visit to Annie in Chapter 6?
(a) Just money and wine.
(b) Just to see everyone.
(c) A fresh start.
(d) Forgiveness.

2. What does Francis tell Harold Allen he wanted to do, at the strike?
(a) Kill a man.
(b) Get his job back.
(c) Get justice.
(d) Raise a ruckus.

3. What explanation does Annie give Francis, for why she never said anything about him dropping Gerald?
(a) There was no use talking about it.
(b) She didn’t want him to stay away from the house.
(c) She already knew how sorry he was.
(d) She thought he would come back and atone for it himself.

4. What revenge did Helen get on her mother?
(a) She took her case to the police, and made her brother give her money.
(b) She moved away, and let her brother put their mother in a home.
(c) She poisoned her.
(d) She ruined herself out of spite.

5. How does the narrator characterize Rosskam?
(a) Pudgy and short.
(b) Filthy and broad-chested.
(c) Tall and young.
(d) Severe and impatient.

6. What does Helen say motivated her through her days?
(a) A will to power.
(b) A will happiness.
(c) A will to redemption.
(d) A will to grace.

7. 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.

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

9. How does Helen characterize her relationship with Arthur?
(a) He squandered her wealth.
(b) He set her free.
(c) He kept her prisoner.
(d) He introduced her to herself.

10. What does Francis ask a woman in the street in Chapter 6?
(a) Where he is.
(b) Where his house used to be.
(c) Where he can get a turkey.
(d) Where he can get a jug.

11. What does the narrator say the clouds resemble, when Francis is standing in the junkyard doorway?
(a) Vicious dogs.
(b) Flying dirty socks.
(c) Snowmen.
(d) Mists from an alcoholic’s breath.

12. What trait does Helen say her mother and Francis’ mother have in common?
(a) They both educated them.
(b) They both kept them at home too long.
(c) They both despised them.
(d) They both lied to them all the time.

13. What did Fiddler Quain do with Francis in 1901?
(a) Work at a shop.
(b) Play baseball.
(c) Ride the rails.
(d) Participate in the trolley strike.

14. What literary term describes the jump back to an earlier time at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Memory.
(b) Non-linear narrative.
(c) A historical narrative.
(d) Flashback.

15. What momentous event took place at Kibbee’s lumberyard?
(a) Francis and Helen worked together.
(b) Francis and Annie kissed for the first time.
(c) Francis slept with Helen for the first time.
(d) Francis met Helen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Francis born in?

2. How does Francis characterize his ability to atone for the past?

3. How does Helen prefer to think of her sins?

4. What does Francis say he connects scars to?

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

(see the answer keys)

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