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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Posey say when Chick tells her she died?
(a) He has a wild imgination.
(b) It was a mistake.
(c) He makes too much of things.
(d) It was just a bad dream.

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

3. Who does Chick call after sneaking out of work in Section 1?
(a) His daughter, Marie.
(b) His ex-wife, Catherine.
(c) His father, Len.
(d) His mother, Posey.

4. What was it that Chick insists his father always had in mind?
(a) A scheme to get rich.
(b) A list.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A plan.

5. What word does Posey show Chick carved into the tree?
(a) Help.
(b) Please.
(c) God.
(d) Baby.

6. What question does Posey ask Chick that causes him to insist that her being in the kitchen eight years after her death is impossible?
(a) Is he ill.
(b) Can he stay all day.
(c) Is Catherine joining them.
(d) Is he dead.

7. During a night of heavy drinking, where does Chick decide to go?
(a) Los Angeles, his sister's home.
(b) New York, his daughter's home.
(c) Boston, his wife's hometown.
(d) Pepperville Beach, his hometown.

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

9. Why did Posey choose a tree to place her prayer in?
(a) Trees are God's favorite vegetation.
(b) The tree was just convenient.
(c) Trees spend all day looking up at God.
(d) Trees have special meaning in her religion.

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) Miss Thelma.
(d) His mother, Posey Benetto.

11. How late for work was Chick on the Monday morning after receiving the evidence of the family event he missed?
(a) Four hours.
(b) Two hours.
(c) One hour.
(d) Three hours.

12. What profession does the narrator regret telling he/she currently work as?
(a) The narrator is a doctor.
(b) The narrator is a professional ball player.
(c) The narrator is a writer.
(d) The narrator is a lawyer.

13. What causes Chick to crash his car in Section 1?
(a) A car driving in the wrong direction.
(b) His decision to go the wrong way down an on ramp.
(c) His decision to drink.
(d) An animal that jumped in front of his car.

14. Who notices the narrator in the Introduction as the narrator watches the action going on?
(a) A kid pitching a ball.
(b) A kid building a sand castle.
(c) An old man mowing the grass.
(d) An old man visiting his wife's grave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chick and his sister use to carve their initials into their mother's kitchen table?

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

3. Who came to Chick's defense when the librarian refused to allow him to check out the book he wanted?

4. What does Posey remind Chick to do as he eats?

5. Why does Chick's mother tell him she will have to take him to his ball game in Section 2: Part 1?

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