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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. What news does Rose mention she hear on the radio shortly before Posey and Chick come to visit?
(a) The president was shot.
(b) There was an accident on the highway.
(c) A bank had been robbed.
(d) Someone jumped from the water tower.

2. What does Posey stress to Chick as being the most important thing in his life while he is college?
(a) Making money.
(b) Sports.
(c) An education.
(d) His health.

3. What does Chick say about this person his mother brags about while doing Rose's hair?
(a) He is a drunk and a loser.
(b) She is ashamed of him.
(c) She is not as great as his mother recalls.
(d) She no longer wants to be a part of his life.

4. From what team is the scout Chick meets after a game one day during college?
(a) Texas Rangers.
(b) St. Louis Cardinals.
(c) Chicago White Socks.
(d) Pittsburg Pirates.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator claim to have found the main character of this novel one Saturday morning?

2. What does Posey tell Chick in a note just after he began college is not a license to be mean to girls?

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

4. Why did Chick believe his father stopped coming around after he quit baseball?

5. When Chick's father asks to drive him home from a college baseball game, what does he do that causes Chick to feel all is right with the world?

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