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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Rosskam demonstrate his strength?
(a) By lifting his wagon.
(b) By lifting a barrel of metal.
(c) By moving an anvil.
(d) By lifting his horse.

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

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

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

6. How does the narrator characterize the effect of Francis handling things from his previous life?
(a) Redemptive.
(b) Uncanny.
(c) Delightful.
(d) Disturbing.

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

8. Why was Billy in trouble with the politicians?
(a) They thought he was rigging the card games he ran.
(b) They thought he was in cahoots with kidnappers.
(c) They thought that he was getting his father to vote against them twenty times.
(d) They thought he was stealing from them.

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

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

11. Why had Helen turned down a sandwich at Jack and Clara’s?
(a) She was too proud to take food from them.
(b) She cannot eat because of her tumor.
(c) She knew that Jack and Clara could barely afford food themselves.
(d) She was ashamed of herself.

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

13. What are the dead folks building in Annie’s back yard, when Francis visits?
(a) A mausoleum.
(b) A grave.
(c) Bleachers.
(d) A shed.

14. What is Helen humming when she wakes up in the morning and starts to walk?
(a) Lacrymosa.
(b) Sanctus.
(c) Requiem.
(d) Te Deum.

15. What does Helen say is her lucky star?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Venus.
(c) God.
(d) The North Star.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Francis and Annie court before they married?

2. In Chapter 5, why is Helen angry at Francis?

3. What does Francis say kept him sane?

4. What does Katrina say will cure all Francis’ troubles?

5. How did Helen’s mother use the money that should have been for Helen?

(see the answer keys)

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