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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 did Posey begin working as a hairstylist when Chick was a child?
(a) She was good at it and she needed a job.
(b) She wanted more flexible hours.
(c) She preferred hairstyling to nursing.
(d) She liked to help old ladies look good for their husbands.

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

3. What song does Chick recall that his mother liked when he was a child?
(a) Paper Roses.
(b) This Could Be the Start of Something Big.
(c) Are You Lonesome Tonight?
(d) Puppy Love.

4. Who dresses up as Santa on the first Christmas after Len Benetto left his family?
(a) Miss Thelma.
(b) Chick.
(c) Posey's boyfriend.
(d) Posey.

5. Who supposedly played in the World Series?
(a) Len Benetto.
(b) The old man at the beach.
(c) Chick Benetto.
(d) The old man at the cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chick sneak out of work in Section 1?

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

3. What question does the narrator pose at the end of the Introduction?

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?

5. What did the narrator later find that added to the narrator's information used to write this novel?

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