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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 the narrator claim to have spent part of her career doing?
(a) Writing about sports.
(b) Writing ghost stories.
(c) Writing romances.
(d) Writing mysteries.

2. Why did Chick Benetto once wish his mother would leave him alone?
(a) She was full of too much bad advice.
(b) She was smothering him.
(c) She was rude and unkind.
(d) She was too critical.

3. What does Chick stop at a convenience store to buy in Section 1?
(a) Wine.
(b) Soda pop.
(c) Beer.
(d) Whiskey.

4. How late for work was Chick on the Monday morning after receiving the evidence of the family event he missed?
(a) Three hours.
(b) Two hours.
(c) One hour.
(d) Four hours.

5. What phrase does Chick feel fits him well?
(a) Life is a beach.
(b) Poor truant, passionate fool.
(c) Blundering back to God.
(d) Tiime will tell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Posey ask Chick to repeat himself when he tells her thank you for the meal?

2. Who calls down to Chick from upstairs as he stands in the kitchen of his mother's abandoned house in Section 2, Part 1?

3. Why does Posey ask Chick to put on his coat after he has finished eating?

4. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?

5. What meal that Posey makes does Len Benetto often complain she cannot make properly?

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