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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chick believe Posey lost all her friends after the divorce?
(a) No one wanted to associate with a divorcee.
(b) She became depressed and unplesant to be around.
(c) Everyone sided with Len.
(d) Other women were threatened by her charm and beauty.

2. What does Chick feel is unbalanced in the lists he made regarding his and his mother's love for one another?
(a) Chick feels he did not stand up enough for his mother.
(b) Chick feels there is no unbalance.
(c) Chick feels he let both his parents down.
(d) Chick feels his mother did not stand up enough for him.

3. Where does the narrator claim to have found the main character of this novel one Saturday morning?
(a) In the bleachers of a Little League baseball field.
(b) Mowing the lawn of his mother's house.
(c) Walking beside the river.
(d) On the railing of a water tower.

4. 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) Personal notes and legal papers.
(c) Personal notes and a journal.
(d) A diary.

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

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

7. What does the narrator see that draws her to the place where she will meet the main character of the novel?
(a) Old men tossing a ball around.
(b) A flower filled cemetery.
(c) Kids playing on the beach.
(d) Kids in purple t-shirts pitching and hitting.

8. Who does Chick find looking at him as he recovers from his jump in section 1?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His sister.

9. Who does the narrator claim the story from this novel belongs to?
(a) Len Benetto.
(b) Maria Benetto.
(c) Pauline 'Posey' Benetto.
(d) Charles 'Chick' Benetto.

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

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

12. What does Chick Benetto blame for the destruction of his marriage?
(a) Infidelity on his part.
(b) Money troubles and her excessive drinking.
(c) Money troubles and his excessive drinking.
(d) Infidelity on her part.

13. What does Chick think about his visit to his mother two years after her death?
(a) Chick begins to question his perceptions.
(b) Chick believes he has died.
(c) Chick does not question it at all.
(d) Chick believes he is having an alcohol induced hallucination.

14. What does Chick notice his car ran into and is now stopped underneath?
(a) A billboard for a Chevrolet dealership.
(b) A truck.
(c) A billboard for a new breakfast cereal.
(d) A school bus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What one thing did Chick notice his parents did together that seemed to make them both happy?

2. Why does Posey ask Chick to repeat himself when he tells her thank you for the meal?

3. Why does Chick Benetto believe he was not invited to this family event?

4. Who did Chick one day catch using binoculars to stare in his mother's bedroom windows shortly after the divorce?

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

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