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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 day does Chick believe was one of the happiest of his mother's life?
(a) The day he graduated high school.
(b) The day he got married.
(c) The day he began college.
(d) The day he made his first homerun.

2. What did chick always think was important to a person's memory?
(a) His surname.
(b) The children he left behind.
(c) The woman he married.
(d) The caliber of profession that followed his name.

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

4. How did Posey come to find out about the Italian woman?
(a) She got a phone call from the woman one day.
(b) She heard a rumor from a neighbor.
(c) She went to Collinswood where Len Benetto bought her a house.
(d) She saw a picture of the woman in Len Benetto's wallet.

5. Who taught Chick how to shave?
(a) His mother.
(b) An uncle.
(c) A boyfriend of his mother's.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chick find his greatest joy during the bleak years after baseball?

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

3. How does Posey react when Chick asks if he can be with her if he dies?

4. What would Posey tell her children when they would ask about patients she cared for who had died?

5. Why did Posey lose her job at the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Posey often do for some of the patients in the hospital where she worked as a nurse?

7. Who does Chick say the ghost in his life truly was?

8. Why does Chick suspect he is suffering from temporary insanity?

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

10. 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?

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