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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. Why can Posey not find another nursing job?
(a) She no longer liked the work.
(b) She no longer felt she could work the hours required.
(c) There was only one hospital in the county.
(d) She was blacklisted by her previous employer.

2. Which did Chick chose to be as a small child, a daddy's boy or a momma's boy?
(a) Daddy's boy.
(b) Both.
(c) Neither.
(d) Momma's boy.

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

4. How does Chick Benetto feel that he lost his father?
(a) Chick turned his back on baseball.
(b) Chick was a poor salesman.
(c) Chick's father disliked Chick's wife.
(d) Chick drank too much and his father disapproved.

5. What was it that Chick insists his father always had in mind?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A list.
(c) A plan.
(d) A scheme to get rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chick say his hometown is called Pepperville Beach?

2. What did Len hope his son would do as an adult?

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

4. What did Posey want Chick to do as an adult?

5. What would Posey tell her children when they would ask about patients she cared for who had died?

(see the answer key)

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