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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Chick tell Roberta the truth about Santa Claus that first Christmas after Len left the family?
(a) He thinks believing in Santa is childish.
(b) He believes that believing in Santa is hurting Roberta.
(c) He thinks Posey is trying to trick them.
(d) He misses his dad and does not want his mother to try to take her place.

3. The narrator says every family is a what?
(a) A joke.
(b) A drama.
(c) A ghost story.
(d) A romance.

4. What was it that Chick insists his father always had in mind?
(a) A list.
(b) A scheme to get rich.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A plan.

5. How many visits does Posey tell Chick she must make that day?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the narrator pose at the end of the Introduction?

2. Who told Chick Benetto she was sorry he did not get a chance to say good-bye before his mother died?

3. Why does Chick's mother tell him she will have to take him to his ball game in Section 2: Part 1?

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

5. What does Chick find in the refrigerator of his mother's long empty house?

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