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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator claim to have found the main character of this novel one Saturday morning?
(a) In the bleachers of a Little League baseball field.
(b) Walking beside the river.
(c) Mowing the lawn of his mother's house.
(d) On the railing of a water tower.

2. What does the main character think the narrator wants to know about him?
(a) Why he attempted suicide.
(b) Why he drank and drove.
(c) Why he left his familiy.
(d) Why his mother died.

3. What does Chick notice his car ran into and is now stopped underneath?
(a) A billboard for a Chevrolet dealership.
(b) A school bus.
(c) A billboard for a new breakfast cereal.
(d) A truck.

4. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?
(a) To visit a relative.
(b) To bury a relative.
(c) To buy a house.
(d) To close on a house that had been in the family for years.

5. Who told Chick Benetto she was sorry he did not get a chance to say good-bye before his mother died?
(a) His fourteen year old daughter.
(b) His ten year old son.
(c) His sister.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see that draws her to the place where she will meet the main character of the novel?

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

3. What does Chick Benetto receive that informs him of this family event he missed?

4. Why does the narrator claim they chose to write the novel in another person's voice?

5. What did the narrator stop to do on the way back to the airport in the Introduction?

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