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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chick sneak out of work in Section 1?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He is called away by a family emergency.
(c) He is hung over and depressed.
(d) He is unable to concentrate.

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

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

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

5. What did the narrator later find that added to the narrator's information used to write this novel?
(a) Newspaper articles and death certificates.
(b) A diary.
(c) Personal notes and a journal.
(d) Personal notes and legal papers.

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

7. Why did Len Benetto often spend long chunks of time away from his family?
(a) To help reduce the friction at home.
(b) To spend time with his biological family.
(c) To visit with liquor distributors and to manage his new store in a town an hour away.
(d) To spend time with his friends.

8. Why did Chick Benetto once wish his mother would leave him alone?
(a) She was smothering him.
(b) She was too critical.
(c) She was rude and unkind.
(d) She was full of too much bad advice.

9. What one thing did Chick notice his parents did together that seemed to make them both happy?
(a) Sing.
(b) Dance.
(c) Drink.
(d) Party.

10. What meal does Posey fix for Chick in the present as he sits at the kitchen table?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Waffles.
(d) Steak.

11. Who supposedly attempted to kill himself/herself?
(a) Chick Benetto.
(b) Marie Benetto.
(c) Posey Benetto.
(d) Len Benetto.

12. Where did Posey met Len Benetto?
(a) At school.
(b) At Pepperville Lake.
(c) At church.
(d) At Galveston beach.

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

14. Why does Chick refuse to give up baseball even after his father has left the family?
(a) He likes the coach.
(b) He likes baseball.
(c) He still wants a connection to his father.
(d) He wants to annoy his mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Posey want Chick to do as an adult?

2. Why did the doctor who delivered Chick tell Posey she had to deliver by dinner time?

3. Who calls down to Chick from upstairs as he stands in the kitchen of his mother's abandoned house in Section 2, Part 1?

4. How did Len Benetto propose to Posey?

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

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