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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chick think about his visit to his mother two years after her death?
(a) Chick does not question it at all.
(b) Chick believes he has died.
(c) Chick believes he is having an alcohol induced hallucination.
(d) Chick begins to question his perceptions.

2. What phrase does Chick feel fits him well?
(a) Blundering back to God.
(b) Life is a beach.
(c) Poor truant, passionate fool.
(d) Tiime will tell.

3. What happens when Miss Thelma's grandchildren come into her bedroom?
(a) They can only see Chick.
(b) They cannot see Chick and Posey.
(c) They can only see Posey.
(d) They cannot see Miss Thelma.

4. What does Chick say is the best thing that ever happened to him in his career?
(a) He played in the All-Star game.
(b) He was made salesman of the year.
(c) He played in the World Series.
(d) He played in the Super Bowl.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What request did Posey make for her own funeral after seeing the custom at Jewish funerals?

2. What profession does the narrator regret telling he/she currently work as?

3. Why did Chick believe his father stopped coming around after he quit baseball?

4. What question does Posey ask Chick that causes him to insist that her being in the kitchen eight years after her death is impossible?

5. What does Chick imagine his mother saying to him as he performs the Jewish custom she requested at her funeral?

(see the answer key)

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