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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. What does Chick learn about this woman that upsets him the most?
(a) She was a sports reporter who could have helped his career.
(b) She gave his father a son.
(c) She was the reason his father left the family.
(d) She was a grandmother he never met.

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

3. Why did Posey say she wanted to include a unique Jewish custom at her own funeral?
(a) To keep the mourners from getting bored.
(b) To reduce the cost of the funeral.
(c) To help the mourners let the body go and celebrate the spirit.
(d) To add something unique to her funeral.

4. How did Len Benetto propose to Posey?
(a) In a letter from Italy.
(b) In a note scribbled in class.
(c) At the same place where they met.
(d) At their favorite Italian restaurant.

5. Why would Chick pick up Roberta after school every day shortly after the divorce?
(a) Roberta insisted.
(b) It was more convenient for him to do it.
(c) Posey was just too embarrassing.
(d) Their mother was working.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Roberta hide the carvings she and Chick made in their mother's kitchen table when their mother returned from work?

2. What did chick always think was important to a person's memory?

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

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

5. Why does Posey ask Chick to repeat himself when he tells her thank you for the meal?

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