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

2. 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.

3. Why does Chick refuse to give up baseball even after his father has left the family?
(a) He still wants a connection to his father.
(b) He likes baseball.
(c) He wants to annoy his mother.
(d) He likes the coach.

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

5. Where does Chick go after he wakes from his fall from the water tower?
(a) To his childhood home.
(b) To his wife's home.
(c) To his current home.
(d) To his daughter's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?

2. How late for work was Chick on the Monday morning after receiving the evidence of the family event he missed?

3. During a night of heavy drinking, where does Chick decide to go?

4. Why does Chick recall that his mother barked at a neighborhood dog?

5. Who supposedly attempted to kill himself/herself?

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