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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chick Benetto blame for the destruction of his marriage?
(a) Money troubles and her excessive drinking.
(b) Money troubles and his excessive drinking.
(c) Infidelity on his part.
(d) Infidelity on her part.

2. What did the narrator stop to do on the way back to the airport in the Introduction?
(a) Visit the beach.
(b) Have lunch.
(c) Get some coffee.
(d) Buy an ice cream.

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

4. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?
(a) Grammar.
(b) Len's drinking.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Religion.

5. What does Chick feel is unbalanced in the lists he made regarding his and his mother's love for one another?
(a) Chick feels his mother did not stand up enough for him.
(b) Chick feels he did not stand up enough for his mother.
(c) Chick feels he let both his parents down.
(d) Chick feels there is no unbalance.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says every family is a what?

2. Why does the narrator claim they chose to write the novel in another person's voice?

3. Which did Chick chose to be as a small child, a daddy's boy or a momma's boy?

4. What sport does the narrator claim the main character once played?

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

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