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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chick tell Roberta the truth about Santa Claus that first Christmas after Len left the family?
(a) He thinks believing in Santa is childish.
(b) He believes that believing in Santa is hurting Roberta.
(c) He misses his dad and does not want his mother to try to take her place.
(d) He thinks Posey is trying to trick them.

2. Why does the narrator claim they chose to write the novel in another person's voice?
(a) To make it more romantic.
(b) To make it more believable.
(c) To make it more suspenseful.
(d) To add to the mystery.

3. Why did Chick and his sister have trouble accepting that their parents were going to get divorced?
(a) They often fought.
(b) They often spent time apart.
(c) They often spoke of separation.
(d) They always got back together.

4. 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) Impossible.
(b) How.
(c) Why.
(d) Mom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Posey do with this food?

2. What does Chick think about his visit to his mother two years after her death?

3. Who dresses up as Santa on the first Christmas after Len Benetto left his family?

4. What family event was Chick Benetto not invited to?

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

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