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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chick find in the refrigerator of his mother's long empty house?
(a) Food.
(b) Stolen computer parts.
(c) A rat.
(d) Drugs.

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

3. What three things did Posey once tell Chick he needed to be successful?
(a) Intelligence, hard work, and good support.
(b) Good support, lots of money, and love.
(c) Hard work, good money, and intelligence.
(d) Belief, hard work, and love.

4. Why does Chick recall that his mother barked at a neighborhood dog?
(a) To teach him that you have to show a bully whose boss.
(b) To teach the dog not to mess with people.
(c) To make his sister laugh.
(d) To make him laugh.

5. Why did Chick and his sister have trouble accepting that their parents were going to get divorced?
(a) They often spoke of separation.
(b) They often spent time apart.
(c) They often fought.
(d) They always got back together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chick notice his car ran into and is now stopped underneath?

2. Who does the narrator claim the story from this novel belongs to?

3. What one thing did Chick notice his parents did together that seemed to make them both happy?

4. Why does Chick refuse to give up baseball even after his father has left the family?

5. What does Chick's mother wear the day she drives him to his first day of college?

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