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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 Chick learn about his mother on his fake business trip that makes him regret leaving?
(a) His mother has cancer.
(b) His mother fell and broke her hip.
(c) His mother was in a car accident.
(d) His mother had a heart attack.

2. Why does Chick's mother tell him she will have to take him to his ball game in Section 2: Part 1?
(a) His father had an accident.
(b) His father was out of town.
(c) His father was gone.
(d) His father did not want to.

3. What is the day that Chick wanted back?
(a) The day he quit baseball.
(b) The birth of his daughter.
(c) His mother's seventy-ninth birthday.
(d) The day his father left.

4. How did Len Benetto propose to Posey?
(a) At the same place where they met.
(b) In a letter from Italy.
(c) At their favorite Italian restaurant.
(d) In a note scribbled in class.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Posey create out of toilet paper for Chick's Halloween costume when he is six?

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

3. Why can Posey not find another nursing job?

4. Where did Chick find his greatest joy during the bleak years after baseball?

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?

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