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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who calls down to Chick from upstairs as he stands in the kitchen of his mother's abandoned house in Section 2, Part 1?
(a) His daughter.
(b) A homeless woman.
(c) A bum.
(d) His mother.

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

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

4. How did Roberta hide the carvings she and Chick made in their mother's kitchen table when their mother returned from work?
(a) A gallon of milk.
(b) A gallon of apple juice.
(c) A gallon of ice cream.
(d) A gallon of koolaide.

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

6. What did Len hope his son would do as an adult?
(a) Make the major leagues.
(b) Become a dentist.
(c) Take over his liquor stores.
(d) Become a doctor.

7. 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 is sending him to the store.
(d) She has visits to make.

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

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

10. What family event was Chick Benetto not invited to?
(a) His mother's funeral.
(b) His sister's wedding.
(c) His daughter's wedding.
(d) His father's funeral.

11. 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.

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

13. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?
(a) Grammar.
(b) Religion.
(c) Len's drinking.
(d) Baseball.

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

15. 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 daughter's home.
(d) To his childhood home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Chick call after sneaking out of work in Section 1?

2. Who told Chick he could only be a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, not both?

3. When did Posey stop listening to her favorite song?

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

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

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