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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. How many visits does Posey tell Chick she must make that day?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. How did Roberta hide the carvings she and Chick made in their mother's kitchen table when their mother returned from work?
(a) A gallon of apple juice.
(b) A gallon of koolaide.
(c) A gallon of milk.
(d) A gallon of ice cream.

3. Who told Chick he could only be a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, not both?
(a) His mother, Posey Benetto.
(b) His father, Len Benetto.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) Miss Thelma.

4. 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 thought he had jumped through a time warp.
(c) He thinks he is dead.
(d) He decides it is a hallucination and he should go with it.

5. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?
(a) To buy a house.
(b) To visit a relative.
(c) To bury a relative.
(d) To close on a house that had been in the family for years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Chick go after he wakes from his fall from the water tower?

3. Why does Chick believe Posey lost all her friends after the divorce?

4. In section 1, from what object does Chick decide to jump?

5. What question does Posey ask Chick that causes him to insist that her being in the kitchen eight years after her death is impossible?

(see the answer key)

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