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

2. 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.

3. Why did the doctor who delivered Chick tell Posey she had to deliver by dinner time?
(a) He did not want her to go hungry.
(b) His wife was making fish sticks.
(c) It cost extra if he had to work through dinner.
(d) He had another patient scheduled for surgery.

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?
(a) How.
(b) Why.
(c) Mom.
(d) Impossible.

5. What kind of scholarship did Chick get to help pay for college?
(a) An academic scholarship.
(b) A baseball scholarship.
(c) A football scholarship.
(d) A track scholarship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Posey stress to Chick as being the most important thing in his life while he is college?

2. Why does Chick say his hometown is called Pepperville Beach?

3. What phrase does Chick feel fits him well?

4. What day does Chick believe was one of the happiest of his mother's life?

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

(see the answer key)

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