View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chick come to accept the events taking place after he jumped from the water tower?
(a) He decides it is a hallucination and he should go with it.
(b) He called it temporary insanity.
(c) He thought he had jumped through a time warp.
(d) He thinks he is dead.

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

3. What does the caller say when Chick answers the phone at Rose's house?
(a) He says he is Rose's husband, but her husband is dead.
(b) He asks for Rose's husband, but he is dead.
(c) He speaks Chick's name and says there was an accident.
(d) He tries to sell Chick life insurance.

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

5. What does Chick notice as he, his mother, and Miss Thelma drive through town?
(a) There are no people out and about.
(b) The town has changed since he last visited.
(c) He does not know any of the people they see, young or old.
(d) Old people are everywhere and they all seem to know his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Chick hears the strange voice a third and final time?

2. 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?

3. What is the final thing Posey tells Chick he must love in order to make a marriage work?

4. What does Posey stress to Chick as being the most important thing in his life while he is college?

5. Why did Posey say she wanted to include a unique Jewish custom at her own funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Posey suggest Len got involved with this second woman while he was in the war, even though he was already engaged to Posey?

2. What metaphor did Posey often use for the death of her patients when she was a nurse?

3. Whose voice does Chick hear as he goes to open the door at his mother's house in Section 3, Part 1?

4. On whom does Chick blame the break up of his marriage?

5. Who gave Chick his nickname?

6. What happens when Chick hears the strange voice once again?

7. Why did Chick not want his mother to go to his dorm room with him?

8. To whom does Posey take Chick to visit after dinner?

9. What does the Italian woman say when she catches sight of Posey and Chick in her mirror?

10. Why was Posey fired from her job as a nurse?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 895 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample