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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 Chick Benetto blame for the destruction of his marriage?
(a) Infidelity on his part.
(b) Money troubles and her excessive drinking.
(c) Infidelity on her part.
(d) Money troubles and his excessive drinking.

2. What was it that Chick insists his father always had in mind?
(a) A list.
(b) A plan.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A scheme to get rich.

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

4. Why did Posey begin working as a hairstylist when Chick was a child?
(a) She wanted more flexible hours.
(b) She liked to help old ladies look good for their husbands.
(c) She was good at it and she needed a job.
(d) She preferred hairstyling to nursing.

5. Who told Chick he could only be a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, not both?
(a) His mother, Posey Benetto.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) Miss Thelma.
(d) His father, Len Benetto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did a librarian tell Chick he could not read 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Jules Verne?

2. Why does Chick's mother tell him she will have to take him to his ball game in Section 2: Part 1?

3. From what team is the scout Chick meets after a game one day during college?

4. Why does Chick admit he continued to play baseball all through his childhood?

5. Why does Chick recall that his mother barked at a neighborhood dog?

(see the answer key)

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