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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. Why did Posey begin working as a hairstylist when Chick was a child?
(a) She wanted more flexible hours.
(b) She was good at it and she needed a job.
(c) She preferred hairstyling to nursing.
(d) She liked to help old ladies look good for their husbands.

2. Why did Miss Thelma call Chick chickadoodle-do?
(a) He often walked all over people.
(b) He often screamed for people from the backyard.
(c) He had a stutter that made he talk strangely.
(d) He looked like a rooster.

3. Who does Chick claim was a ghost throughout his childhood?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His father.

4. What does Miss Thelma's family think she is doing?
(a) Working a crossword.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Making dinner.
(d) Talking to a friend on the phone.

5. What does Posey tell Chick in a note just after he began college is not a license to be mean to girls?
(a) His intelligence.
(b) His handsomness.
(c) His financial status.
(d) His athletic ability.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In section 1, from what object does Chick decide to jump?

3. What day does Chick believe was one of the happiest of his mother's life?

4. What question does Posey ask Chick that causes him to insist that her being in the kitchen eight years after her death is impossible?

5. What was it that Chick insists his father always had in mind?

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