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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 called Posey's house one afternoon while Chick was there in Section 4: Part 1?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Miss Thelma.
(c) Len Benetto.
(d) Rose.

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. The narrator says every family is a what?
(a) A ghost story.
(b) A joke.
(c) A drama.
(d) A romance.

4. What does Chick's mother wear the day she drives him to his first day of college?
(a) A business suit.
(b) A purple pantsuit.
(c) A modest dress.
(d) A nursing uniform.

5. What song does Chick recall that his mother liked when he was a child?
(a) Paper Roses.
(b) Are You Lonesome Tonight?
(c) This Could Be the Start of Something Big.
(d) Puppy Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chick react to the announcement that he was a blessing his mother had waited a long time to receive?

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

3. How did Posey often spend holidays after the divorce?

4. Why does the narrator claim they chose to write the novel in another person's voice?

5. What does Posey say when Chick tells her she died?

(see the answer key)

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