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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Thelma's family think she is doing?
(a) Talking to a friend on the phone.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Working a crossword.
(d) Making dinner.

2. Why does Chick recall that his mother barked at a neighborhood dog?
(a) To teach the dog not to mess with people.
(b) To make his sister laugh.
(c) To make him laugh.
(d) To teach him that you have to show a bully whose boss.

3. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Grammar.
(c) Religion.
(d) Len's drinking.

4. What causes Chick to crash his car in Section 1?
(a) A car driving in the wrong direction.
(b) An animal that jumped in front of his car.
(c) His decision to go the wrong way down an on ramp.
(d) His decision to drink.

5. What question does Posey ask Chick that causes him to insist that her being in the kitchen eight years after her death is impossible?
(a) Is he dead.
(b) Is he ill.
(c) Is Catherine joining them.
(d) Can he stay all day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase does Chick feel fits him well?

2. What word does Posey show Chick carved into the tree?

3. Why does Chick not allow his mother to go up to his dorm room with him?

4. What does Chick Benetto blame for the destruction of his marriage?

5. What does Posey do with this food?

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