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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. What does Posey say children often do when they are hurting?
(a) Torture their siblings.
(b) Act out in school.
(c) Hurt others.
(d) Hide their feelings.

2. What did Posey want Chick to do as an adult?
(a) To be a priest.
(b) To be a ball player.
(c) To be well educated.
(d) To take over his father's liquor stores.

3. How does Chick come to accept the events taking place after he jumped from the water tower?
(a) He thinks he is dead.
(b) He thought he had jumped through a time warp.
(c) He decides it is a hallucination and he should go with it.
(d) He called it temporary insanity.

4. Why does Chick say his hometown is called Pepperville Beach?
(a) It is a play on words regarding a nearby business.
(b) It is a joke among the locals.
(c) Someone dreamed of creating a beach there, but never got around to it.
(d) Some entrepreneur brought sand to the area to create a beach at the lake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chick feel is unbalanced in the lists he made regarding his and his mother's love for one another?

2. Who told Chick he could only be a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, not both?

3. What does Chick say about this person his mother brags about while doing Rose's hair?

4. What does Posey say a child who is embarrassed by is mother is?

5. Who called Posey's house one afternoon while Chick was there in Section 4: Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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