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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Francis kill Dick Doolan?
(a) Broke his head with a stone.
(b) Smashed his skull against a bridge abutment.
(c) Suffocated him in a stream.
(d) Stabbed him with a fork.

2. 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 the only apology would be to kill himself.
(c) He says that nothing he says means anything.
(d) He says that his life itself is guilt, now.

3. How does Helen prefer to think of her sins?
(a) As fate.
(b) As events.
(c) As decisions.
(d) As slips.

4. What physically connects Francis to the memory of his son’s death?
(a) Tears dropping on his shoes.
(b) Birds chirping in the trees.
(c) The sensation of his own awed astonishment at what happened.
(d) The winds in the grass.

5. 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 was ashamed of herself.
(d) She cannot eat because of her tumor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is in short supply on Halloween night?

2. What does the narrator say the clouds resemble, when Francis is standing in the junkyard doorway?

3. What physical debility does Reverend Chester have?

4. Why does Francis say he never committed suicide?

5. What image does the narrator say Helen presents to the audience at the Gilded Cage?

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