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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spring: Chapters 20-28, 147-214.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who goes along to breakfast with Evvie and Andy the first time they enact their tradition in quite a while?
(a) Lila.
(b) Monica.
(c) Frank.
(d) Dean.

2. What color is the suitcase that Evvie retrieves from the hall closet, packs, and puts into her car at the start of the prologue?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

3. Dean and Evvie agree that Maine is "the oldest and" most what "state in the country" (71)?
(a) Whitest.
(b) Coldest.
(c) Most backwards.
(d) Richest.

4. Which baseball player is said to have undergone the same affliction that "had happened to Dean" (55)?
(a) Bob Gibson.
(b) Nolan Ryan.
(c) Chuck Knoblauch.
(d) Randy Johnson.

5. The end of the prologue states, "She later figured" that Tim had "probably died while she was waiting at the stoplight" (3) a block away from which landmark?
(a) The church where they got married.
(b) The elementary school where they had first met.
(c) The parking lot where he had taught her how to drive.
(d) The county building where they had applied for their marriage license.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are said to be in attendance at the exhibition game as Dean throws his first pitch?

2. Even with a bit of time having passed since Tim's death, Evvie still feels "consumed by" (10) what activity?

3. To what state had Evvie's mother Eileen moved once she abruptly left her husband and child in Maine?

4. In Winter: Chapter 19, Dean is not a part of spring training for the first time in how many years?

5. In what state did Dean first walk onto a baseball field?

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