3. Why does Francis say he never committed suicide?
(a) He was always afraid of hell.
(b) He knew that no one would say prayers for him in death.
(c) He was deathly afraid of being alone forever in the cemetery.
(d) He was too busy trying to figure out how to live.

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

5. What is Francis’ response to Katrina’s scar?
(a) He is blind to it.
(b) He loathes it.
(c) He is fascinated by it.
(d) He accepts it.

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

7. What advice does Keats give Francis about seeing?
(a) Make sure you learn the thing that you didn’t see at first glance.
(b) Be careful not to see too much.
(c) Don’t make any decisions until you have seen as much as possible.
(d) Trust your eyes to deceive you, so pay close attention so they don’t.

8. What does Francis imagine when Rosskam stops his wagon in Chapter 4?
(a) His parents moving into the house and raising him.
(b) The face of Harold Allen as he was hit with the rock Francis threw.
(c) His wife living her days without him, not telling anyone what happened to Gerald.
(d) His son slipping out of his hands.

9. What turns Francis and Rosskam back in their rounds?
(a) A strike.
(b) An accident.
(c) A fire.
(d) A parade.

10. How did Helen’s mother use the money that should have been for Helen?
(a) Travel.
(b) She spent it on clothes.
(c) Her brother’s education.
(d) Gambling.

11. How did Helen’s father die?
(a) Train wreck.
(b) He was murdered.
(c) Illness.
(d) Jumped off a bridge.

12. How did Katrina die?
(a) In a fire.
(b) An accident.
(c) Childbirth.
(d) Cancer.

13. What does Helen say she is a symbol of?
(a) She says that she is a symbol of the life Francis wanted for himself.
(b) She says that she is not a symbol of anything.
(c) She says that she is a symbol of the road-not-taken.
(d) She says that she is a symbol of the potential in the human heart.

14. What did Helen’s grandmother tell her she would do if she loved something?
(a) Die for it.
(b) Kill it.
(c) Set it free.
(d) Kill herself.

15. What does Francis say kept him sane?
(a) The open country.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Flight.