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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. What does the narrator see that draws her to the place where she will meet the main character of the novel?
(a) Kids in purple t-shirts pitching and hitting.
(b) Old men tossing a ball around.
(c) A flower filled cemetery.
(d) Kids playing on the beach.

2. What sport does the narrator claim the main character once played?
(a) Hockey.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Football.
(d) Basketball.

3. Who told Chick he could only be a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, not both?
(a) Miss Thelma.
(b) His mother, Posey Benetto.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His father, Len Benetto.

4. What kind of story does the narrator suggest this novel is?
(a) A ghost story.
(b) A romance.
(c) A family drama.
(d) A mystery.

5. What does Posey do with this food?
(a) She serves it for dinner.
(b) She eats it herself.
(c) She throws it out.
(d) She gives it to a poor neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Chick's mother often slip to Chick whenever she dropped him off somewhere?

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?

4. Who brings food to Chick with instructions that he take it home to his family shortly after his parents' divorce?

5. What did Chick and his sister use to carve their initials into their mother's kitchen table?

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