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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Posey remind Chick to do as he eats?
(a) Eat slower.
(b) Eat faster.
(c) Eat more.
(d) Eat less.

2. What did Len hope his son would do as an adult?
(a) Become a dentist.
(b) Become a doctor.
(c) Make the major leagues.
(d) Take over his liquor stores.

3. What phrase does Chick feel fits him well?
(a) Life is a beach.
(b) Blundering back to God.
(c) Poor truant, passionate fool.
(d) Tiime will tell.

4. What does Chick Benetto receive that informs him of this family event he missed?
(a) Wedding photos.
(b) A letter.
(c) A newspaper announcement.
(d) A delayed invitation.

5. What question does Posey ask Chick that causes him to insist that her being in the kitchen eight years after her death is impossible?
(a) Is he dead.
(b) Can he stay all day.
(c) Is he ill.
(d) Is Catherine joining them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says every family is a what?

3. What line does Chick Benetto feel he crossed?

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

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

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