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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Religion.
(c) Len's drinking.
(d) Grammar.

2. What news does Rose mention she hear on the radio shortly before Posey and Chick come to visit?
(a) A bank had been robbed.
(b) The president was shot.
(c) There was an accident on the highway.
(d) Someone jumped from the water tower.

3. What did Len hope his son would do as an adult?
(a) Make the major leagues.
(b) Become a dentist.
(c) Become a doctor.
(d) Take over his liquor stores.

4. Which did Chick chose to be as a small child, a daddy's boy or a momma's boy?
(a) Both.
(b) Neither.
(c) Daddy's boy.
(d) Momma's boy.

5. What does Posey say to Chick when he asks why she never remarried after her divorce?
(a) Posey said she did not want to change the family dynammic by brining in a stepfather.
(b) Posey said she never found a man the children would approve of.
(c) Posey said she was happy with her kids and her grandchildren. Life goes by too fast.
(d) Posey said she never met another man who could make her as happy as Len Benetto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did this caller in Section 4: Part 1 want from Chick?

2. How does Chick come to accept the events taking place after he jumped from the water tower?

3. What does Chick say about this person his mother brags about while doing Rose's hair?

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

5. Why does Chick recall that his mother barked at a neighborhood dog?

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