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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 Posey tell Chick about how she happens to visit people who are dying?
(a) Posey is called to people she offended in life to make amends as they die.
(b) God tells her who to visit.
(c) Posey is a sort of guardian angel who goes to help people make the transition to death easier.
(d) They think of her and that calls her to their sides.

2. Who taught Chick how to shave?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) An uncle.
(d) A boyfriend of his mother's.

3. 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.

4. What does Posey say a child who is embarrassed by is mother is?
(a) A child who is selfish.
(b) A child who has not lived long enough.
(c) A child who needs a good spanking.
(d) A child who needs a lesson in virtue.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who notices the narrator in the Introduction as the narrator watches the action going on?

2. What happens when Miss Thelma's grandchildren come into her bedroom?

3. How late for work was Chick on the Monday morning after receiving the evidence of the family event he missed?

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

5. Who does Chick call after sneaking out of work in Section 1?

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