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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 Posey insist she and Chick do after supper on their one more day together?
(a) Have desert.
(b) Make a third visit.
(c) Call Roberta.
(d) Walk on the beach.

2. What does Chick consider his best day during his college years?
(a) The day his sister joined him at college.
(b) The day he was scouted by a professional baseball team.
(c) The day his father walked back into his life.
(d) The day he met Catherine.

3. What does the narrator claim to have spent part of her career doing?
(a) Writing about sports.
(b) Writing ghost stories.
(c) Writing romances.
(d) Writing mysteries.

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

5. What does the main character think the narrator wants to know about him?
(a) Why he attempted suicide.
(b) Why he left his familiy.
(c) Why his mother died.
(d) Why he drank and drove.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose say when Posey asks about her children?

2. Who notices the narrator in the Introduction as the narrator watches the action going on?

3. The narrator says every family is a what?

4. Where did Chick find his greatest joy during the bleak years after baseball?

5. What song does Chick recall that his mother liked when he was a child?

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