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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. During a night of heavy drinking, where does Chick decide to go?
(a) Pepperville Beach, his hometown.
(b) New York, his daughter's home.
(c) Boston, his wife's hometown.
(d) Los Angeles, his sister's home.

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

3. What does Posey create out of toilet paper for Chick's Halloween costume when he is six?
(a) A marshmellow.
(b) A frankenstein monster.
(c) A ghost.
(d) A mummy.

4. Who supposedly attempted to kill himself/herself?
(a) Marie Benetto.
(b) Chick Benetto.
(c) Len Benetto.
(d) Posey Benetto.

5. Who notices the narrator in the Introduction as the narrator watches the action going on?
(a) A kid building a sand castle.
(b) An old man visiting his wife's grave.
(c) An old man mowing the grass.
(d) A kid pitching a ball.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Chick he could only be a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, not both?

2. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?

3. What did Len hope his son would do as an adult?

4. What did the narrator later find that added to the narrator's information used to write this novel?

5. Why does Chick Benetto believe he was not invited to this family event?

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