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

2. Who notices the narrator in the Introduction as the narrator watches the action going on?
(a) An old man mowing the grass.
(b) A kid building a sand castle.
(c) A kid pitching a ball.
(d) An old man visiting his wife's grave.

3. Why did Posey choose a tree to place her prayer in?
(a) The tree was just convenient.
(b) Trees spend all day looking up at God.
(c) Trees are God's favorite vegetation.
(d) Trees have special meaning in her religion.

4. Where does Chick go after he wakes from his fall from the water tower?
(a) To his current home.
(b) To his wife's home.
(c) To his childhood home.
(d) To his daughter's home.

5. The narrator says every family is a what?
(a) A drama.
(b) A romance.
(c) A ghost story.
(d) A joke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Chick Benetto she was sorry he did not get a chance to say good-bye before his mother died?

2. Who dresses up as Santa on the first Christmas after Len Benetto left his family?

3. Why does the narrator claim they chose to write the novel in another person's voice?

4. What does the main character think the narrator wants to know about him?

5. What one word was the only one Chick could manage to say when his mother, who had been dead eight years, entered the kitchen in Section 2: Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What one thing does Chick recall always made his parents happy?

3. Why did Chick's parents feel the need to get married quickly?

4. Why does the narrator say the story belongs to Chick Benetto?

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

6. What game does the narrator learn that Chick Benetto once played as a professional player?

7. What reason does Posey give for dumping food given to the family by nuns down the disposal?

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

9. What phrase does Chick feel describes him completely?

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

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