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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which did Chick chose to be as a small child, a daddy's boy or a momma's boy?
(a) Daddy's boy.
(b) Both.
(c) Neither.
(d) Momma's boy.

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

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

5. What does Posey say when Chick tells her she died?
(a) It was just a bad dream.
(b) He has a wild imgination.
(c) It was a mistake.
(d) He makes too much of things.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chick go after he wakes from his fall from the water tower?

2. How did Roberta hide the carvings she and Chick made in their mother's kitchen table when their mother returned from work?

3. What line does Chick Benetto feel he crossed?

4. Who does the narrator claim the story from this novel belongs to?

5. What does the narrator see that draws her to the place where she will meet the main character of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Posey refer to Chick as a Daddy's boy?

2. When did Chick say he felt he became a Mommy's boy?

3. Why does Chick Benetto drive toward his home town?

4. What phrase does Chick feel describes him completely?

5. What word did Chick's mother help Chick find the definition for despite his father's disapproval of her help?

6. What impact does the setting have on Chick's family after the divorce?

7. What offends Chick when a man calls his mother a divorcee?

8. Why is the word please carved into the side of tree?

9. What causes Chick's mother to stop playing her favorite record?

10. What draws Chick's attention to the table top in his mother's kitchen as his mother treats his wounds?

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