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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Posey react when Chick asks if he can be with her if he dies?
(a) Sure, she would love the company.
(b) Now he wants to be with her.
(c) No, she does not want him around.
(d) God will not allow it.

2. Why does Chick calls his mother a hypocrite when she finds an item hidden in his sock drawer when he is only fourteen?
(a) She does drugs.
(b) She looks at pornography.
(c) She smokes.
(d) She drinks.

3. Why did Miss Thelma call Chick chickadoodle-do?
(a) He often screamed for people from the backyard.
(b) He often walked all over people.
(c) He looked like a rooster.
(d) He had a stutter that made he talk strangely.

4. What does Chick not want to be, what frightens him about his death?
(a) That he will be remembered as a failure.
(b) That he will be remembered as the man who alienated his child.
(c) That he will be remembered as a drunk.
(d) That he will be remembered as ordinary.

5. Why did Posey say she wanted to include a unique Jewish custom at her own funeral?
(a) To add something unique to her funeral.
(b) To help the mourners let the body go and celebrate the spirit.
(c) To keep the mourners from getting bored.
(d) To reduce the cost of the funeral.

6. What would Posey tell her children when they would ask about patients she cared for who had died?
(a) That they no longer needed her care.
(b) That they were in a better place.
(c) That they went home.
(d) That they no longer felt pain.

7. What does Chick believe about his current circumstances now that he knows he is somewhere in limbo between life and death?
(a) That he has had a mental breakdown.
(b) That he is really hallucinating.
(c) That he is already dead.
(d) That he is dying.

8. Who suddenly shows up at one of Chick's college baseball games, causing him to fight back emotion?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) Miss Thelma.

9. Who is the first woman Chick and Posey visit that day?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Rose.
(c) Miss Thelma.
(d) The Italian woman.

10. What does Posey stress to Chick as being the most important thing in his life while he is college?
(a) An education.
(b) Sports.
(c) His health.
(d) Making money.

11. What does Chick consider the worst day of his college career?
(a) The day his sister dropped out.
(b) The day his father stopped coming to his games.
(c) The day he dropped out to become a professional ball player.
(d) The day he flunked out.

12. What does Miss Thelma say will be her legacy after she dies?
(a) Her grandchildren's laughter.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her friends.
(d) Her reputation for hard work.

13. What did Miss Thelma do for the Benetto family when Chick was a little boy?
(a) Cooked.
(b) Home repair.
(c) Cleaned.
(d) Babysat.

14. What kind of scholarship did Chick get to help pay for college?
(a) A track scholarship.
(b) An academic scholarship.
(c) A football scholarship.
(d) A baseball scholarship.

15. What does Posey say children often do when they are hurting?
(a) Torture their siblings.
(b) Hurt others.
(c) Hide their feelings.
(d) Act out in school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Posey say a child who is embarrassed by is mother is?

2. Who called Posey's house one afternoon while Chick was there in Section 4: Part 1?

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

4. What does Chick learn about his mother on his fake business trip that makes him regret leaving?

5. Why can Posey not find another nursing job?

(see the answer keys)

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