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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What desire does Francis say he feels when Rosskam tells him about the women he makes love to during his rounds?
(a) To smash Rosskam’s skull in.
(b) To run away.
(c) To feel desire as he felt it once.
(d) To make love with Helen.

2. Who does Fiddler Quain tell Francis he’ll have to forgive?
(a) Himself.
(b) His traitorous hands.
(c) Harold Allen.
(d) His baby for falling.

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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 stealing from them.
(d) They thought he was in cahoots with kidnappers.

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

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

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

10. What was Francis’ job when he was living with Helen?
(a) Fixit man.
(b) Baseball player.
(c) Ragman.
(d) Trolley car engineer.

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

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

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

14. What does Katrina say will cure all Francis’ troubles?
(a) Travel.
(b) Sex.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Knowledge.

15. How much does Francis take in pay from Rosskam?
(a) $5.25.
(b) $3.75.
(c) $5.75.
(d) $7.75.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Francis say kept him sane?

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

3. What trait does Helen say her mother and Francis’ mother have in common?

4. How does Helen characterize her relationship with Francis?

5. What advice does Keats give Francis about seeing?

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