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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Roberta hide the carvings she and Chick made in their mother's kitchen table when their mother returned from work?
(a) A gallon of koolaide.
(b) A gallon of apple juice.
(c) A gallon of ice cream.
(d) A gallon of milk.

5. Which did Chick chose to be as a small child, a daddy's boy or a momma's boy?
(a) Both.
(b) Momma's boy.
(c) Daddy's boy.
(d) Neither.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Posey want Chick to do as an adult?

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

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

4. What sport does the narrator claim the main character once played?

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

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