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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who calls down to Chick from upstairs as he stands in the kitchen of his mother's abandoned house in Section 2, Part 1?
(a) His mother.
(b) A bum.
(c) His daughter.
(d) A homeless woman.

2. What does Rose say when Posey asks about her children?
(a) They come to see her daily.
(b) They never come to see her.
(c) They are all doing well, but in distant cities.
(d) They check on her once a week, like a chore.

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

4. Why did Miss Thelma call Chick chickadoodle-do?
(a) He often walked all over people.
(b) He often screamed for people from the backyard.
(c) He looked like a rooster.
(d) He had a stutter that made he talk strangely.

5. Why does Posey ask Chick to repeat himself when he tells her thank you for the meal?
(a) She wants to savor the words.
(b) She wants to hear his voice.
(c) She is hard of hearing.
(d) She is surprised by his unusual gratitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chick's fourteen-year-old daughter write in the memory book at her grandmother's funeral?

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

3. What does Chick learn about this woman that upsets him the most?

4. Why did the doctor who delivered Chick tell Posey she had to deliver by dinner time?

5. Why does Chick's mother tell him she will have to take him to his ball game in Section 2: Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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