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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What injury did Chick suffer during spring training while playing professional baseball?
(a) A broken arm.
(b) A broken leg.
(c) A knee injury.
(d) An elbow injury.

2. What does Chick say is the best thing that ever happened to him in his career?
(a) He played in the World Series.
(b) He played in the All-Star game.
(c) He played in the Super Bowl.
(d) He was made salesman of the year.

3. What is a short stay in baseball called?
(a) A glass of tequilla.
(b) A cup of tea.
(c) A cup of coffee.
(d) A glass of milk.

4. 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) He does not know any of the people they see, young or old.
(c) There are no people out and about.
(d) The town has changed since he last visited.

5. What does Chick believe about his current circumstances now that he knows he is somewhere in limbo between life and death?
(a) That he is really hallucinating.
(b) That he is dying.
(c) That he has had a mental breakdown.
(d) That he is already dead.

6. Where did Chick find his greatest joy during the bleak years after baseball?
(a) In his daughter.
(b) In his mother.
(c) In his sister.
(d) In his wife.

7. What happens when Miss Thelma's grandchildren come into her bedroom?
(a) They can only see Chick.
(b) They cannot see Chick and Posey.
(c) They can only see Posey.
(d) They cannot see Miss Thelma.

8. What is the day that Chick wanted back?
(a) The day he quit baseball.
(b) The day his father left.
(c) The birth of his daughter.
(d) His mother's seventy-ninth birthday.

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

10. What does Chick learn about this woman that upsets him the most?
(a) She was the reason his father left the family.
(b) She was a grandmother he never met.
(c) She gave his father a son.
(d) She was a sports reporter who could have helped his career.

11. What does Posey tell Chick in a note just after he began college is not a license to be mean to girls?
(a) His handsomness.
(b) His financial status.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) His athletic ability.

12. What news does Rose mention she hear on the radio shortly before Posey and Chick come to visit?
(a) A bank had been robbed.
(b) Someone jumped from the water tower.
(c) The president was shot.
(d) There was an accident on the highway.

13. Who called Posey's house one afternoon while Chick was there in Section 4: Part 1?
(a) Miss Thelma.
(b) Catherine.
(c) Rose.
(d) Len Benetto.

14. What is the final thing Posey tells Chick he must love in order to make a marriage work?
(a) His children.
(b) The marriage itself.
(c) His wife.
(d) Himself.

15. Why can Posey not find another nursing job?
(a) She was blacklisted by her previous employer.
(b) There was only one hospital in the county.
(c) She no longer liked the work.
(d) She no longer felt she could work the hours required.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did this caller in Section 4: Part 1 want from Chick?

2. What would Posey tell her children when they would ask about patients she cared for who had died?

3. Why did Miss Thelma call Chick chickadoodle-do?

4. What does Posey stress to Chick as being the most important thing in his life while he is college?

5. In a note written to Chick on his wedding day, what does Posey say she knows Chick thinks of the notes?

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