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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Skippy Maguire ruin his hand?
(a) By grabbing hot coals in the fire.
(b) By punching a window.
(c) By playing when it was injured.
(d) By barehanding a line drive.

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

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

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

7. What does Francis say he wants from his visit to Annie in Chapter 6?
(a) A fresh start.
(b) Just to see everyone.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Just money and wine.

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

9. What is William Kennedy using when he says that Helen’s money is the last twelve dollars of her life?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

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

11. What does Francis say was his mother’s attitude toward sex?
(a) Respect.
(b) Sensuality.
(c) Abhorrence.
(d) Longing.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose letter is the only letter Francis has saved?

2. What does Francis say was always easier than coming home?

3. What does Francis imagine when Rosskam stops his wagon in Chapter 4?

4. Why does Francis say he never committed suicide?

5. How does Helen characterize her relationship with Arthur?

(see the answer keys)

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