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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Katrina tell Francis her poet sees?
(a) Things men should not see in women.
(b) Things she thought existed when in fact they did not.
(c) Things she has not shown to anyone else, even her husband.
(d) Things she learned to see about herself.

2. The narrator says that even as Francis felt rich, he felt what other feeling?
(a) Miserable.
(b) Dead.
(c) Broke.
(d) Forsaken.

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

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

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

6. How does the narrator characterize Helen after her relationship with Arthur ended?
(a) A windblown weed.
(b) A bird migrating to nowhere.
(c) A wasted legacy.
(d) A woman without a home.

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

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

9. What does Francis imagine when Rosskam stops his wagon in Chapter 4?
(a) His son slipping out of his hands.
(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 parents moving into the house and raising him.

10. What does Francis say his mother tried to do to the neighbors’ property?
(a) Poison their dog.
(b) Wall out their noise.
(c) Kill their tree.
(d) Break their windows.

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

12. In Chapter 5, why is Helen angry at Francis?
(a) He willfully cuckolds himself.
(b) He will never commit to her.
(c) He cannot take care of himself.
(d) He is always abandoning her.

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

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

15. What does Francis protect Katrina Daugherty from?
(a) Scandal.
(b) Robbers.
(c) His mother.
(d) The neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Fiddler Quain tell Francis he’ll have to forgive?

2. How does the narrator characterize Rosskam?

3. What does Helen say is her lucky star?

4. What are the dead folks building in Annie’s back yard, when Francis visits?

5. What image does Katrina’s poet have of her?

(see the answer keys)

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