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

2. Why does Chick claim he did not check on the driver of the truck involved in his accident?
(a) He could see the driver was already out of the car and calling the police.
(b) He could see the driver was fine.
(c) He did not have the courage.
(d) He did not want to be arrested for drunk driving.

3. What does Chick intend to do once he arrives at his destination in Section 2: Part 1?
(a) To speak to his wife.
(b) To drink some more.
(c) To kill himself.
(d) To speak to his daughter.

4. Who told Chick he could only be a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, not both?
(a) His father, Len Benetto.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His mother, Posey Benetto.
(d) Miss Thelma.

5. What did the narrator later find that added to the narrator's information used to write this novel?
(a) Newspaper articles and death certificates.
(b) Personal notes and a journal.
(c) Personal notes and legal papers.
(d) A diary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Len Benetto often spend long chunks of time away from his family?

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

3. What meal does Posey fix for Chick in the present as he sits at the kitchen table?

4. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?

5. Who does Chick find looking at him as he recovers from his jump in section 1?

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