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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what team is the scout Chick meets after a game one day during college?
(a) Texas Rangers.
(b) Pittsburg Pirates.
(c) St. Louis Cardinals.
(d) Chicago White Socks.

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

3. What musical object does Chick compare small towns to?
(a) Piano key.
(b) Clarinet reed.
(c) Metronome.
(d) Violin string.

4. What causes Chick to crash his car in Section 1?
(a) A car driving in the wrong direction.
(b) An animal that jumped in front of his car.
(c) His decision to drink.
(d) His decision to go the wrong way down an on ramp.

5. What kind of scholarship did Chick get to help pay for college?
(a) An academic scholarship.
(b) A baseball scholarship.
(c) A track scholarship.
(d) A football scholarship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chick think about his visit to his mother two years after her death?

2. Why did a librarian tell Chick he could not read 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Jules Verne?

3. Why does Chick not allow his mother to go up to his dorm room with him?

4. What does Chick's mother wear the day she drives him to his first day of college?

5. How does Chick react to the announcement that he was a blessing his mother had waited a long time to receive?

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