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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Helen find out that her mother had betrayed her?
(a) Her brother told her.
(b) Her father told her in a dream.
(c) Her aunt told her.
(d) She found her father’s will.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Francis recognize in King Brady’s saloon?

2. How did Katrina die?

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

4. What food does Katrina serve to Francis?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Francis describe having met Helen when he was younger?

2. How does Francis characterize the difference between Annie’s kiss and Katrina’s?

3. How did Helen’s father’s death change her life?

4. What kind of peace does Francis make with Annie?

5. How does the narrative change in Chapter 5?

6. Why does Helen say that she and Francis could not marry?

7. How does Helen feel about her life, when she is summing it up as she dies?

8. Explain the meaning of the attention Rosskam draws to Francis’ hands.

9. What prompts Francis to get down from Rosskam’s wagon and quit for the day?

10. What was Francis’ mother’s relationship with Katrina Daugherty like?

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