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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did a librarian tell Chick he could not read 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Jules Verne?
(a) It was to easy for him.
(b) It was too hard for him.
(c) He was disrespectful to books.
(d) He did not have a library card.

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

4. 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.

5. What question does the narrator pose at the end of the Introduction?
(a) What if you got one day to be whoever you want.
(b) What if you got one day to repair all your mistakes.
(c) What if you got one day back with a dead loved one.
(d) What if you got one day with a lost love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chick recall that his mother barked at a neighborhood dog?

2. What does the narrator claim to have spent part of her career doing?

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

4. What did Chick and his sister use to carve their initials into their mother's kitchen table?

5. What one thing did Chick notice his parents did together that seemed to make them both happy?

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