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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 day does Chick believe was one of the happiest of his mother's life?
(a) The day he got married.
(b) The day he graduated high school.
(c) The day he made his first homerun.
(d) The day he began college.

2. Why does the narrator tell the reader in the Introduction that they might not believe the story?
(a) The story revolves around the main characters one day visit with his dead mother.
(b) The narrator does not believe the story.
(c) The story is unusual.
(d) The story is not true.

3. Who does Chick find looking at him as he recovers from his jump in section 1?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

4. Who did Chick one day catch using binoculars to stare in his mother's bedroom windows shortly after the divorce?
(a) A couple kids Chick went to school with.
(b) His dad and one of his workers.
(c) A friend of his dad's and his son.
(d) A married neighbor and his son.

5. What would Posey tell her children when they would ask about patients she cared for who had died?
(a) That they no longer needed her care.
(b) That they were in a better place.
(c) That they went home.
(d) That they no longer felt pain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the doctor who delivered Chick tell Posey she had to deliver by dinner time?

3. How much longer after this injury did Chick continue to play baseball professionally?

4. What does Chick Benetto blame for the destruction of his marriage?

5. Why does Chick recall that his mother barked at a neighborhood dog?

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