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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chick intend to do once he arrives at his destination in Section 2: Part 1?
(a) To speak to his wife.
(b) To drink some more.
(c) To speak to his daughter.
(d) To kill himself.

2. What did the narrator stop to do on the way back to the airport in the Introduction?
(a) Buy an ice cream.
(b) Visit the beach.
(c) Have lunch.
(d) Get some coffee.

3. Which did Chick chose to be as a small child, a daddy's boy or a momma's boy?
(a) Both.
(b) Neither.
(c) Momma's boy.
(d) Daddy's boy.

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

5. Who did Chick one day catch using binoculars to stare in his mother's bedroom windows shortly after the divorce?
(a) A couple kids Chick went to school with.
(b) A friend of his dad's and his son.
(c) His dad and one of his workers.
(d) A married neighbor and his son.

6. What does Posey tell Chick this word is supposed to represent?
(a) A prayer for her children's safety.
(b) A prayer for a baby.
(c) A prayer for a gentler husband.
(d) A prayer for money to provide for her children.

7. Why does Chick claim he did not check on the driver of the truck involved in his accident?
(a) He could see the driver was fine.
(b) He did not have the courage.
(c) He did not want to be arrested for drunk driving.
(d) He could see the driver was already out of the car and calling the police.

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

9. 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 life and death.
(d) The line between morality and sin.

10. Who told Chick he could only be a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, not both?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His father, Len Benetto.
(c) His mother, Posey Benetto.
(d) Miss Thelma.

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

12. What does Chick Benetto receive that informs him of this family event he missed?
(a) A newspaper announcement.
(b) A letter.
(c) A delayed invitation.
(d) Wedding photos.

13. What does Chick find in the refrigerator of his mother's long empty house?
(a) Stolen computer parts.
(b) Drugs.
(c) A rat.
(d) Food.

14. What did Len hope his son would do as an adult?
(a) Make the major leagues.
(b) Become a doctor.
(c) Take over his liquor stores.
(d) Become a dentist.

15. What question does the narrator pose at the end of the Introduction?
(a) What if you got one day to be whoever you want.
(b) What if you got one day back with a dead loved one.
(c) What if you got one day with a lost love.
(d) What if you got one day to repair all your mistakes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sport does the narrator claim the main character once played?

3. What does Chick think about his visit to his mother two years after her death?

4. Why did a librarian tell Chick he could not read 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Jules Verne?

5. Why does Chick sneak out of work in Section 1?

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