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

2. What does the narrator claim to have spent part of her career doing?
(a) Writing ghost stories.
(b) Writing romances.
(c) Writing mysteries.
(d) Writing about sports.

3. 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.

4. What did Posey want Chick to do as an adult?
(a) To be a ball player.
(b) To take over his father's liquor stores.
(c) To be well educated.
(d) To be a priest.

5. Why does Chick sneak out of work in Section 1?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He is unable to concentrate.
(c) He is called away by a family emergency.
(d) He is hung over and depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Len Benetto propose to Posey?

2. Where does Chick go after he wakes from his fall from the water tower?

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

4. What kind of story does the narrator suggest this novel is?

5. Who does the narrator claim the story from this novel belongs to?

(see the answer key)

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