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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. Which did Chick chose to be as a small child, a daddy's boy or a momma's boy?
(a) Momma's boy.
(b) Both.
(c) Neither.
(d) Daddy's boy.

2. What does Chick think about his visit to his mother two years after her death?
(a) Chick believes he has died.
(b) Chick believes he is having an alcohol induced hallucination.
(c) Chick begins to question his perceptions.
(d) Chick does not question it at all.

3. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Len's drinking.
(c) Religion.
(d) Grammar.

4. How does Chick react to the announcement that he was a blessing his mother had waited a long time to receive?
(a) He wanted a drink.
(b) With shame for all he had done wrong over the past few years.
(c) He hugged his mother.
(d) With pride and humility.

5. Why does Chick sneak out of work in Section 1?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He is called away by a family emergency.
(c) He is hung over and depressed.
(d) He is unable to concentrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical object does Chick compare small towns to?

2. What does Chick learn about his mother while he and she are visiting with Miss Thelma?

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

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

5. What meal does Posey fix for Chick in the present as he sits at the kitchen table?

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