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

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

4. What musical object does Chick compare small towns to?
(a) Piano key.
(b) Clarinet reed.
(c) Metronome.
(d) Violin string.

5. Why does Chick say his hometown is called Pepperville Beach?
(a) Someone dreamed of creating a beach there, but never got around to it.
(b) It is a play on words regarding a nearby business.
(c) Some entrepreneur brought sand to the area to create a beach at the lake.
(d) It is a joke among the locals.

6. 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 to repair all your mistakes.
(c) What if you got one day with a lost love.
(d) What if you got one day back with a dead loved one.

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

8. Why did Posey begin working as a hairstylist when Chick was a child?
(a) She was good at it and she needed a job.
(b) She liked to help old ladies look good for their husbands.
(c) She preferred hairstyling to nursing.
(d) She wanted more flexible hours.

9. What did Chick do about the peeping tom?
(a) Called the police on them.
(b) Told his mother.
(c) Beat them up.
(d) Told them to stop.

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

11. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?
(a) To bury a relative.
(b) To visit a relative.
(c) To buy a house.
(d) To close on a house that had been in the family for years.

12. 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 had an accident.
(b) His father did not want to.
(c) His father was gone.
(d) His father was out of town.

13. Why does Posey ask Chick to put on his coat after he has finished eating?
(a) She is taking him to the hospital.
(b) She wants him to leave her alone.
(c) She has visits to make.
(d) She is sending him to the store.

14. 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 let both his parents down.
(b) Chick feels there is no unbalance.
(c) Chick feels his mother did not stand up enough for him.
(d) Chick feels he did not stand up enough for his mother.

15. What did Posey want Chick to do as an adult?
(a) To be a ball player.
(b) To take over his father's liquor stores.
(c) To be well educated.
(d) To be a priest.