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

2. Where does the narrator claim to have found the main character of this novel one Saturday morning?
(a) On the railing of a water tower.
(b) Mowing the lawn of his mother's house.
(c) Walking beside the river.
(d) In the bleachers of a Little League baseball field.

3. What question does the narrator pose at the end of the Introduction?
(a) What if you got one day to repair all your mistakes.
(b) What if you got one day to be whoever you want.
(c) What if you got one day back with a dead loved one.
(d) What if you got one day with a lost love.

4. What does the main character think the narrator wants to know about him?
(a) Why he attempted suicide.
(b) Why his mother died.
(c) Why he left his familiy.
(d) Why he drank and drove.

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 bum.
(c) His mother.
(d) A homeless woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Chick call after sneaking out of work in Section 1?

2. In section 1, from what object does Chick decide to jump?

3. What does Chick feel is unbalanced in the lists he made regarding his and his mother's love for one another?

4. What does Chick stop at a convenience store to buy in Section 1?

5. Who supposedly played in the World Series?

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