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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How much does Francis take in pay from Rosskam?
(a) $7.75.
(b) $5.25.
(c) $5.75.
(d) $3.75.

5. What was Francis’ job when he was living with Helen?
(a) Ragman.
(b) Baseball player.
(c) Fixit man.
(d) Trolley car engineer.

6. What food does Katrina serve to Francis?
(a) Compote.
(b) Fois gras.
(c) Crepes.
(d) Gratiné.

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

8. What does Francis imagine when Rosskam stops his wagon in Chapter 4?
(a) The face of Harold Allen as he was hit with the rock Francis threw.
(b) His parents moving into the house and raising him.
(c) His son slipping out of his hands.
(d) His wife living her days without him, not telling anyone what happened to Gerald.

9. How does Helen characterize her relationship with Arthur?
(a) He set her free.
(b) He introduced her to herself.
(c) He squandered her wealth.
(d) He kept her prisoner.

10. 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.

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

12. What is Francis’ response to Katrina’s scar?
(a) He accepts it.
(b) He is fascinated by it.
(c) He is blind to it.
(d) He loathes it.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Francis ask a woman in the street in Chapter 6?

2. What trait does Helen say her mother and Francis’ mother have in common?

3. How does Francis characterize his ability to atone for the past?

4. What did Francis’ mother announce at Thanksgiving dinner after Francis was married?

5. What does Francis say he connects scars to?

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