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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 does Chick notice as he, his mother, and Miss Thelma drive through town?
(a) He does not know any of the people they see, young or old.
(b) The town has changed since he last visited.
(c) Old people are everywhere and they all seem to know his mother.
(d) There are no people out and about.

2. Who taught Chick how to shave?
(a) His father.
(b) A boyfriend of his mother's.
(c) His mother.
(d) An uncle.

3. What does Chick say when his mother asks about his wife, Catherine?
(a) They split up.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He lies, saying she is sick.
(d) He lies, saying they are still together.

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

5. Why did Posey choose a tree to place her prayer in?
(a) The tree was just convenient.
(b) Trees spend all day looking up at God.
(c) Trees are God's favorite vegetation.
(d) Trees have special meaning in her religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Posey tell Chick in a note just after he began college is not a license to be mean to girls?

2. What does Posey do with this food?

3. Why did Chick Benetto once wish his mother would leave him alone?

4. What injury did Chick suffer during spring training while playing professional baseball?

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

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