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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chick find in the refrigerator of his mother's long empty house?
(a) A rat.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Stolen computer parts.
(d) Food.

2. 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.

3. Who does the narrator claim the story from this novel belongs to?
(a) Charles 'Chick' Benetto.
(b) Maria Benetto.
(c) Pauline 'Posey' Benetto.
(d) Len Benetto.

4. What musical object does Chick compare small towns to?
(a) Clarinet reed.
(b) Metronome.
(c) Piano key.
(d) Violin string.

5. What is the one thing Len Benetto ever said about Posey to Chick?
(a) She was unfaithful.
(b) She was a nag.
(c) She was selfish.
(d) She was a hardheaded woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase does Chick feel fits him well?

2. What does Miss Thelma's family think she is doing?

3. What does Chick notice as he, his mother, and Miss Thelma drive through town?

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

5. What does Posey do with this food?

(see the answer key)

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