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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 Benetto blame for the destruction of his marriage?
(a) Infidelity on her part.
(b) Money troubles and his excessive drinking.
(c) Infidelity on his part.
(d) Money troubles and her excessive drinking.

2. Where does Chick go after he wakes from his fall from the water tower?
(a) To his wife's home.
(b) To his daughter's home.
(c) To his current home.
(d) To his childhood home.

3. When is the first time Chick heard the word divorcee as a child?
(a) When his mother said it to a friend.
(b) When his father said it about his mother.
(c) When his father said it after a baseball game.
(d) When the housekeeper said it to his mother.

4. What line does Chick Benetto feel he crossed?
(a) The line of no return that leads to suicide.
(b) The line between right and wrong.
(c) The line between morality and sin.
(d) The line between life and death.

5. How does Chick come to accept the events taking place after he jumped from the water tower?
(a) He thinks he is dead.
(b) He thought he had jumped through a time warp.
(c) He decides it is a hallucination and he should go with it.
(d) He called it temporary insanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?

2. Where was Chick buried after his death?

3. How many visits does Posey tell Chick she must make that day?

4. What does Posey tell Chick in a note just after he began college is not a license to be mean to girls?

5. What news does Rose mention she hear on the radio shortly before Posey and Chick come to visit?

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