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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chick refuse to give up baseball even after his father has left the family?
(a) He likes the coach.
(b) He still wants a connection to his father.
(c) He wants to annoy his mother.
(d) He likes baseball.

2. What does Chick feel is unbalanced in the lists he made regarding his and his mother's love for one another?
(a) Chick feels he let both his parents down.
(b) Chick feels his mother did not stand up enough for him.
(c) Chick feels there is no unbalance.
(d) Chick feels he did not stand up enough for his mother.

3. What phrase does Chick feel fits him well?
(a) Blundering back to God.
(b) Tiime will tell.
(c) Poor truant, passionate fool.
(d) Life is a beach.

4. 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) A homeless woman.
(b) A bum.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His mother.

5. What does Posey do with this food?
(a) She serves it for dinner.
(b) She gives it to a poor neighbor.
(c) She eats it herself.
(d) She throws it out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Chick find looking at him as he recovers from his jump in section 1?

2. What does Chick find in the refrigerator of his mother's long empty house?

3. What was it that Chick insists his father always had in mind?

4. What did Chick and his sister use to carve their initials into their mother's kitchen table?

5. When is the first time Chick heard the word divorcee as a child?

(see the answer key)

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