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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 profession does the narrator regret telling he/she currently work as?
(a) The narrator is a doctor.
(b) The narrator is a professional ball player.
(c) The narrator is a writer.
(d) The narrator is a lawyer.

2. What does Chick notice his car ran into and is now stopped underneath?
(a) A truck.
(b) A billboard for a new breakfast cereal.
(c) A billboard for a Chevrolet dealership.
(d) A school bus.

3. What did Chick's mother often slip to Chick whenever she dropped him off somewhere?
(a) Notes.
(b) Kisses.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.

4. Why does the narrator claim they chose to write the novel in another person's voice?
(a) To make it more believable.
(b) To make it more romantic.
(c) To add to the mystery.
(d) To make it more suspenseful.

5. Why does the narrator tell the reader in the Introduction that they might not believe the story?
(a) The narrator does not believe the story.
(b) The story revolves around the main characters one day visit with his dead mother.
(c) The story is not true.
(d) The story is unusual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chick find in the refrigerator of his mother's long empty house?

2. Who did Chick one day catch using binoculars to stare in his mother's bedroom windows shortly after the divorce?

3. What did the narrator stop to do on the way back to the airport in the Introduction?

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

5. What did Chick and his sister use to carve their initials into their mother's kitchen table?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Chick return to his family home? What does he find there?

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the narrator in the Introduction say you might call this novel a ghost story?

7. What phrase does Chick feel describes him completely?

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

9. Who does Chick see when he jumps from the water tower?

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

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