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

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

3. What one word was the only one Chick could manage to say when his mother, who had been dead eight years, entered the kitchen in Section 2: Part 2?
(a) How.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Mom.
(d) Why.

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

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 he did not stand up enough for his mother.
(b) Chick feels his mother did not stand up enough for him.
(c) Chick feels there is no unbalance.
(d) Chick feels he let both his parents down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see that draws her to the place where she will meet the main character of the novel?

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

3. Where did Posey met Len Benetto?

4. What does Chick Benetto receive that informs him of this family event he missed?

5. What song does Chick recall that his mother liked when he was a child?

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