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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. Where did Chick find his greatest joy during the bleak years after baseball?
(a) In his daughter.
(b) In his mother.
(c) In his sister.
(d) In his wife.

2. What does Posey find in Chick's room when he is fourteen that causes a battle between the two?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Pornography.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Alcohol.

3. What does Chick find in the refrigerator of his mother's long empty house?
(a) Stolen computer parts.
(b) Food.
(c) A rat.
(d) Drugs.

4. What does Chick say about this person his mother brags about while doing Rose's hair?
(a) She is not as great as his mother recalls.
(b) She is ashamed of him.
(c) He is a drunk and a loser.
(d) She no longer wants to be a part of his life.

5. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?
(a) Len's drinking.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Grammar.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Posey not find another nursing job?

2. What does Rose say is the only part of her that is still young?

3. Over dinner, what does Chick request his mother tell him about?

4. What does Chick intend to do once he arrives at his destination in Section 2: Part 1?

5. Who is the first woman Chick and Posey visit that day?

(see the answer key)

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