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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chick's mother often slip to Chick whenever she dropped him off somewhere?
(a) Notes.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Kisses.

2. What does Posey say a child who is embarrassed by is mother is?
(a) A child who needs a lesson in virtue.
(b) A child who has not lived long enough.
(c) A child who is selfish.
(d) A child who needs a good spanking.

3. What does Chick say is the best thing that ever happened to him in his career?
(a) He played in the All-Star game.
(b) He played in the World Series.
(c) He played in the Super Bowl.
(d) He was made salesman of the year.

4. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?
(a) To close on a house that had been in the family for years.
(b) To visit a relative.
(c) To buy a house.
(d) To bury a relative.

5. How much longer after this injury did Chick continue to play baseball professionally?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Sixteen months.
(d) Six years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls down to Chick from upstairs as he stands in the kitchen of his mother's abandoned house in Section 2, Part 1?

2. What does Rose say when Posey asks about her children?

3. What does Chick believe about his current circumstances now that he knows he is somewhere in limbo between life and death?

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. Why does Chick calls his mother a hypocrite when she finds an item hidden in his sock drawer when he is only fourteen?

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