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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. Why does Chick lie to his family about a trip out of town on his mother's birthday?
(a) So he can see his mistress.
(b) So he can escape a boring party.
(c) So he can sneak out to get a surprise gift.
(d) So he can play in a baseball game.

2. How does Posey react when Chick asks if he can be with her if he dies?
(a) Sure, she would love the company.
(b) God will not allow it.
(c) Now he wants to be with her.
(d) No, she does not want him around.

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

4. Why can Posey not find another nursing job?
(a) She no longer liked the work.
(b) She no longer felt she could work the hours required.
(c) She was blacklisted by her previous employer.
(d) There was only one hospital in the county.

5. How much longer after this injury did Chick continue to play baseball professionally?
(a) Sixteen months.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) Six years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Catherine react two weeks after Posey's death to Chick's confession regarding the fake business trip?

2. What does Posey insist she and Chick do after supper on their one more day together?

3. What does Chick consider his best day during his college years?

4. What day does Chick believe was one of the happiest of his mother's life?

5. What does Posey say a child who is embarrassed by is mother is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What did Marie write in the memory book at her grandmother's funeral?

5. What does Chick hear when he answers the phone at Rose's house?

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

7. What explanation does Posey give to Chick about how people are dying call her to their sides?

8. What do Posey and Chick talk about over dinner?

9. Who encouraged Chick to drop out of college?

10. What are the two days at college Chick shares with the reader?

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