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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Chick's father asks to drive him home from a college baseball game, what does he do that causes Chick to feel all is right with the world?
(a) Shows respect for the coach.
(b) Explains his decision for not seeing Chick throughout his childhood.
(c) Apologizes for leaving the family.
(d) Offers to pay for a new glove.

2. What request did Posey make for her own funeral after seeing the custom at Jewish funerals?
(a) That the mourners bury her before sundown ont he day she died.
(b) That the mourners throw roses on her coffin.
(c) That the mourners step on a peice of glass before her coffin.
(d) That the mourners throw shovels full of dirt on her coffin.

3. What day does Chick believe was one of the happiest of his mother's life?
(a) The day he began college.
(b) The day he graduated high school.
(c) The day he made his first homerun.
(d) The day he got married.

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

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

6. What is a short stay in baseball called?
(a) A glass of tequilla.
(b) A glass of milk.
(c) A cup of coffee.
(d) A cup of tea.

7. Who does Chick claim was a ghost throughout his childhood?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His sister.

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

9. What did chick always think was important to a person's memory?
(a) The woman he married.
(b) His surname.
(c) The caliber of profession that followed his name.
(d) The children he left behind.

10. 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 already dead.
(c) That he is dying.
(d) That he is really hallucinating.

11. Who is the Italian woman that Posey and Chick go to visit last?
(a) Len Benetto's cousin.
(b) Len Benetto's mother.
(c) Len Benetto's sister.
(d) Len Benetto's wife.

12. What did this caller in Section 4: Part 1 want from Chick?
(a) To sell him insurance.
(b) To give Posey a message.
(c) To play in an old-timers ball game.
(d) To offer him a job.

13. Why does Posey tell Chick in Section 3: Part 2 that she did not want to ask for money from his father?
(a) She was too proud.
(b) She did not need money.
(c) She did not need any more from him.
(d) He did not have it.

14. How did Catherine react two weeks after Posey's death to Chick's confession regarding the fake business trip?
(a) It no longer mattered.
(b) That he deserved to feel guilty.
(c) That he should go back and leave them alone.
(d) That he should have told her the truth to begin with.

15. What dish does this Italian woman make that Posey thinks Len Benetto always wanted over Posey's version of the same dish?
(a) Fettucini.
(b) Spaghetti.
(c) Ziti.
(d) Macaroni.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chick Benetto feel that he lost his father?

2. How did Posey come to find out about the Italian woman?

3. Why did Posey lose her job at the hospital?

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

5. How much longer after this injury did Chick continue to play baseball professionally?

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