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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Posey do with this food?
(a) She gives it to a poor neighbor.
(b) She serves it for dinner.
(c) She eats it herself.
(d) She throws it out.

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

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

11. Why does Chick's mother tell him she will have to take him to his ball game in Section 2: Part 1?
(a) His father was gone.
(b) His father had an accident.
(c) His father did not want to.
(d) His father was out of town.

12. What does Posey create out of toilet paper for Chick's Halloween costume when he is six?
(a) A frankenstein monster.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A marshmellow.
(d) A mummy.

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

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

15. What did Chick and his sister use to carve their initials into their mother's kitchen table?
(a) Steak knives.
(b) Razor blades.
(c) Switchblades.
(d) Pocket knives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator claim to have spent part of her career doing?

3. What did Chick's mother often slip to Chick whenever she dropped him off somewhere?

4. In section 1, from what object does Chick decide to jump?

5. What causes Chick to crash his car in Section 1?

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