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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Chick's fourteen-year-old daughter write in the memory book at her grandmother's funeral?
(a) When heaven is done with her, she would like her grandmother back.
(b) That she thinks this whole thing is stupid.
(c) That she hopes her grandmother will finally find peace in heaven.
(d) That she is angry with God for stealing her grandmother away.

3. What does Posey tell Chick about how she happens to visit people who are dying?
(a) God tells her who to visit.
(b) Posey is called to people she offended in life to make amends as they die.
(c) Posey is a sort of guardian angel who goes to help people make the transition to death easier.
(d) They think of her and that calls her to their sides.

4. What family event was Chick Benetto not invited to?
(a) His father's funeral.
(b) His sister's wedding.
(c) His daughter's wedding.
(d) His mother's funeral.

5. What did Chick do about the peeping tom?
(a) Told them to stop.
(b) Called the police on them.
(c) Beat them up.
(d) Told his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator later find that added to the narrator's information used to write this novel?

2. Who does Chick find looking at him as he recovers from his jump in section 1?

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

4. What did Miss Thelma do for the Benetto family when Chick was a little boy?

5. Why did Posey begin working as a hairstylist when Chick was a child?

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