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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator claim to have spent part of her career doing?
(a) Writing ghost stories.
(b) Writing mysteries.
(c) Writing about sports.
(d) Writing romances.

3. What did Chick's mother often slip to Chick whenever she dropped him off somewhere?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Kisses.
(d) Notes.

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

5. Why does the narrator claim they chose to write the novel in another person's voice?
(a) To add to the mystery.
(b) To make it more suspenseful.
(c) To make it more romantic.
(d) To make it more believable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Posey met Len Benetto?

2. What causes Chick to crash his car in Section 1?

3. What does Chick intend to do once he arrives at his destination in Section 2: Part 1?

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

5. What was it that Chick insists his father always had in mind?

(see the answer key)

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