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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What three things did Posey once tell Chick he needed to be successful?
(a) Good support, lots of money, and love.
(b) Intelligence, hard work, and good support.
(c) Hard work, good money, and intelligence.
(d) Belief, hard work, and love.

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

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

6. Why does Chick admit he continued to play baseball all through his childhood?
(a) He hoped it would help him become rich and famous.
(b) He hoped it would bring his father back into his life.
(c) He hoped it would mean a way out of his mother's house.
(d) He hoped it would teach him the values his father should have taught him.

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

8. Why would Chick pick up Roberta after school every day shortly after the divorce?
(a) Roberta insisted.
(b) Their mother was working.
(c) It was more convenient for him to do it.
(d) Posey was just too embarrassing.

9. 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) Offers to pay for a new glove.
(c) Apologizes for leaving the family.
(d) Explains his decision for not seeing Chick throughout his childhood.

10. In a note written to Chick on his wedding day, what does Posey say she knows Chick thinks of the notes?
(a) That they are special.
(b) That they are well written.
(c) That they are silly.
(d) That they are stupid and a waste of time.

11. Where did Chick find his greatest joy during the bleak years after baseball?
(a) In his mother.
(b) In his daughter.
(c) In his wife.
(d) In his sister.

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

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

14. What does Chick imagine his mother saying to him as he performs the Jewish custom she requested at her funeral?
(a) Perfect.
(b) Good boy.
(c) How could you?
(d) Could you do it a little better?

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Italian woman that Posey and Chick go to visit last?

2. What is a short stay in baseball called?

3. What kind of scholarship did Chick get to help pay for college?

4. What day does Chick believe was one of the happiest of his mother's life?

5. What does Chick not want to be, what frightens him about his death?

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