View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Francis ask Rosskam to stop his wagon?
(a) At Annie’s house.
(b) At the house where he was born and raised.
(c) At the Mission.
(d) At Finny’s car.

2. Whose letter is the only letter Francis has saved?
(a) Billy.
(b) Peggy.
(c) Annie.
(d) Helen.

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

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

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

6. 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 a symbol of the potential in the human heart.
(c) She says that she is not a symbol of anything.
(d) She says that she is a symbol of the road-not-taken.

7. Who does Francis recognize in King Brady’s saloon?
(a) Men he used to know.
(b) Annie.
(c) Rudy.
(d) Himself.

8. What reason does Helen give, for abdicating from life?
(a) For love.
(b) For exhaustion.
(c) For illness.
(d) For lack of curiosity.

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

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

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

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

13. What pitch does Francis teach Daniel to throw?
(a) A knuckleball.
(b) A curveball.
(c) An outshoot.
(d) An inshoot.

14. How does Francis characterize his ability to atone for the past?
(a) He says that he can’t bring himself to apologize.
(b) He says that nothing he says means anything.
(c) He says that his life itself is guilt, now.
(d) He says that the only apology would be to kill himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality does the narrator says that Helen’s silk kimono has?

2. What did Helen’s grandmother tell her she would do if she loved something?

3. How does the narrator characterize the effect of Francis handling things from his previous life?

4. What turns Francis and Rosskam back in their rounds?

5. Why does Helen tell Finny not to touch her chest?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 579 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample