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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Miss Thelma do for the Benetto family when Chick was a little boy?
(a) Babysat.
(b) Cleaned.
(c) Cooked.
(d) Home repair.

2. Why would Chick pick up Roberta after school every day shortly after the divorce?
(a) It was more convenient for him to do it.
(b) Posey was just too embarrassing.
(c) Their mother was working.
(d) Roberta insisted.

3. Who does Posey brag about as she works on Rose's hair?
(a) Catherine, her daughter-in-law.
(b) Chick, her son.
(c) Roberta, her daughter.
(d) Marie, her granddaughter.

4. Over dinner, what does Chick request his mother tell him about?
(a) Miss Thelma's family.
(b) Roberta's family.
(c) Her family.
(d) His father's family.

5. Who suddenly shows up at one of Chick's college baseball games, causing him to fight back emotion?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His father.
(d) Miss Thelma.

6. What three things did Posey once tell Chick he needed to be successful?
(a) Good support, lots of money, and love.
(b) Intelligence, hard work, and good support.
(c) Hard work, good money, and intelligence.
(d) Belief, hard work, and love.

7. What does Posey insist she and Chick do after supper on their one more day together?
(a) Make a third visit.
(b) Have desert.
(c) Walk on the beach.
(d) Call Roberta.

8. What kind of scholarship did Chick get to help pay for college?
(a) A football scholarship.
(b) A track scholarship.
(c) A baseball scholarship.
(d) An academic scholarship.

9. What does the caller say when Chick answers the phone at Rose's house?
(a) He tries to sell Chick life insurance.
(b) He says he is Rose's husband, but her husband is dead.
(c) He asks for Rose's husband, but he is dead.
(d) He speaks Chick's name and says there was an accident.

10. What profession did Chick get into after baseball?
(a) Business owner.
(b) Sales.
(c) Coaching.
(d) Computer programming.

11. What does Chick notice as he, his mother, and Miss Thelma drive through town?
(a) Old people are everywhere and they all seem to know his mother.
(b) There are no people out and about.
(c) He does not know any of the people they see, young or old.
(d) The town has changed since he last visited.

12. What did Chick's fourteen-year-old daughter write in the memory book at her grandmother's funeral?
(a) That she thinks this whole thing is stupid.
(b) That she hopes her grandmother will finally find peace in heaven.
(c) That she is angry with God for stealing her grandmother away.
(d) When heaven is done with her, she would like her grandmother back.

13. What does Chick imagine his mother saying to him as he performs the Jewish custom she requested at her funeral?
(a) Could you do it a little better?
(b) How could you?
(c) Perfect.
(d) Good boy.

14. What does Chick say when his mother asks about his wife, Catherine?
(a) He lies, saying they are still together.
(b) They split up.
(c) He lies, saying she is sick.
(d) Nothing.

15. What did chick always think was important to a person's memory?
(a) The caliber of profession that followed his name.
(b) The children he left behind.
(c) The woman he married.
(d) His surname.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dish does this Italian woman make that Posey thinks Len Benetto always wanted over Posey's version of the same dish?

2. What injury did Chick suffer during spring training while playing professional baseball?

3. From what team is the scout Chick meets after a game one day during college?

4. How does Chick Benetto feel that he lost his father?

5. What does Posey say children often do when they are hurting?

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