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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. When Evvie and Dean arrive back at home after their trip to pick up Dean's pinball machine, Dean tells Evvie that he had thought several times that day about taking what action?
(a) Telling her to shut up.
(b) Moving to Newark.
(c) Kissing her.
(d) Asking her to marry him.

2. Though Evvie often refers to herself as "a professional eavesdropper" (27), what is her official title?
(a) Translator.
(b) Transcriber.
(c) 911 dispatcher.
(d) Operator.

3. For how many months has Evvie kept the secret about leaving Tim by the time Andy finds out the truth?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 17.
(d) 11.

4. What is the name of Andy's oldest daughter?
(a) Rose.
(b) Nona.
(c) Monica.
(d) Lilly.

5. What reason does Evvie provide when she tells her mother Eileen in Summer to Opening Day: Chapter 34 that she will not be meeting up with her in Portland?
(a) She says that she is sick.
(b) She says that her car is in the shop.
(c) She says that she is attending a wedding.
(d) She says that she does not want to.

Short Answer Questions

1. Every time Evvie thinks about reaching out to Andy after their argument at the barbecue, the memory of what word coming out of Andy's mouth stops her?

2. In Spring: Chapter 26, Evvie reflects upon the fact that once which month arrives, it will have been two years since Tim's death?

3. An article in the issue of Sports Illustrated mentioned in Fall: Chapter 1 is said to be about a baseball player "who woke up one day and couldn't" take what action "anymore" (10)?

4. What item does Evvie place into the glove compartment at the start of the prologue entitled First?

5. How many daughters does Andy have with his ex-wife Lori?

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