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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer to Opening Day: Chapters 29-38 and Epilogue, 215-288.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Spring: Chapter 26, Evvie reflects upon the fact that once which month arrives, it will have been two years since Tim's death?
(a) November.
(b) December.
(c) September.
(d) October.

2. Dean tells Evvie in Winter: Chapter 14 that if he wanted to talk about what subject, he would have stayed in Manhattan?
(a) Pitching.
(b) The stock market.
(c) Romance.
(d) Responsibility.

3. Which character meets Evvie in the parking lot on the day of the tree-planting ceremony celebrating Tim's life?
(a) Frank.
(b) Andy.
(c) Dean.
(d) Monica.

4. In what decade was the term used to describe Dean's affliction coined, according to the narrator?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1940s.

5. To what state had Evvie's mother Eileen moved once she abruptly left her husband and child in Maine?
(a) Texas.
(b) George.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lori, the mother of Dean's children, lives in which southern U.S. town?

2. Though Evvie often refers to herself as "a professional eavesdropper" (27), what is her official title?

3. Who calls Evvie in the prologue to tell her that Tim has been in a severe car accident?

4. What item does Dean leave under the sink for Evvie to find when he moves out of the apartment?

5. Evvie proposes at the end of Spring: Chapter 21 that Dean pitch how many innings in the Claws' exhibition game?

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