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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What meal does Posey fix for Chick in the present as he sits at the kitchen table?
(a) Waffles.
(b) Steak.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Pancakes.

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

3. Who does Chick find looking at him as he recovers from his jump in section 1?
(a) His mother.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His sister.
(d) His father.

4. Who came to Chick's defense when the librarian refused to allow him to check out the book he wanted?
(a) His teacher.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His friend.

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

6. 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.

7. How did Posey often spend holidays after the divorce?
(a) Working overtime at the hospital.
(b) With friends and neighbors like before.
(c) Throwing parties with just her and the kids.
(d) Going out with all her new boyfriends.

8. Who calls down to Chick from upstairs as he stands in the kitchen of his mother's abandoned house in Section 2, Part 1?
(a) A bum.
(b) His daughter.
(c) A homeless woman.
(d) His mother.

9. What does Chick intend to do once he arrives at his destination in Section 2: Part 1?
(a) To kill himself.
(b) To speak to his wife.
(c) To speak to his daughter.
(d) To drink some more.

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

11. What did the narrator later find that added to the narrator's information used to write this novel?
(a) A diary.
(b) Newspaper articles and death certificates.
(c) Personal notes and legal papers.
(d) Personal notes and a journal.

12. Who supposedly played in the World Series?
(a) Chick Benetto.
(b) The old man at the beach.
(c) Len Benetto.
(d) The old man at the cemetery.

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

14. Why does Posey ask Chick to put on his coat after he has finished eating?
(a) She has visits to make.
(b) She wants him to leave her alone.
(c) She is taking him to the hospital.
(d) She is sending him to the store.

15. What does Posey remind Chick to do as he eats?
(a) Eat slower.
(b) Eat less.
(c) Eat more.
(d) Eat faster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What song does Chick recall that his mother liked when he was a child?

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

3. What does Chick stop at a convenience store to buy in Section 1?

4. Why does Chick recall that his mother barked at a neighborhood dog?

5. Why does Chick claim he did not check on the driver of the truck involved in his accident?

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