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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who brings food to Chick with instructions that he take it home to his family shortly after his parents' divorce?
(a) A couple of nuns.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) A priest.
(d) A local teacher.

2. What definition of an echo did Chick's mother give him as a child and he remembers while talking to the narrator in the bleachers?
(a) Sound bouncing off of solid objects.
(b) A reverberation of sound.
(c) The persistence of sound after the source has stopped.
(d) A sound that never dies.

3. What would Chick like to do with those he loves as he sits talking to the narrator?
(a) Explain about his alcoholism.
(b) Keep them at a distance.
(c) Offer what little money he has.
(d) Make things right.

4. What meal that Posey makes does Len Benetto often complain she cannot make properly?
(a) Spaghetti.
(b) Fettuccini.
(c) Ziti.
(d) Macaroni.

5. What does Posey remind Chick to do as he eats?
(a) Eat less.
(b) Eat slower.
(c) Eat more.
(d) Eat faster.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Catherine react two weeks after Posey's death to Chick's confession regarding the fake business trip?

2. What does Chick feel is unbalanced in the lists he made regarding his and his mother's love for one another?

3. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?

4. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?

5. How does Chick Benetto feel that he lost his father?

(see the answer key)

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