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

3. What image does Katrina’s poet have of her?
(a) A caged woman eating a rabbit.
(b) A serpent with long hair.
(c) A bird being chased by a hawk.
(d) A crow flying away from a poisoned squirrel.

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

5. What year was Francis born in?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1887.

6. What revenge did Helen get on her mother?
(a) She took her case to the police, and made her brother give her money.
(b) She poisoned her.
(c) She moved away, and let her brother put their mother in a home.
(d) She ruined herself out of spite.

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

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

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

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

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

12. For whom does Helen light a candle when she goes to church?
(a) Francis.
(b) Her child.
(c) Her parents.
(d) Herself.

13. Where did Helen plan to go after Vassar?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

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

15. 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.