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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Posey stress to Chick as being the most important thing in his life while he is college?
(a) His health.
(b) Making money.
(c) Sports.
(d) An education.

2. What does Posey tell Chick when he confesses his guilt to her on their one more day together?
(a) That he deserves what he gets.
(b) That all is forgiven and he should forgive himself.
(c) That children should not have to choose between parents.
(d) That she is angry with him for not being there with her.

3. How did Catherine react two weeks after Posey's death to Chick's confession regarding the fake business trip?
(a) That he deserved to feel guilty.
(b) It no longer mattered.
(c) That he should go back and leave them alone.
(d) That he should have told her the truth to begin with.

4. What one thing would Chick change about the day his mother died?
(a) That he was not there.
(b) That she died alone.
(c) That Maria found her.
(d) He could have saved her.

5. What does Chick learn about his mother on his fake business trip that makes him regret leaving?
(a) His mother was in a car accident.
(b) His mother fell and broke her hip.
(c) His mother had a heart attack.
(d) His mother has cancer.

6. What does Posey say children often do when they are hurting?
(a) Torture their siblings.
(b) Hide their feelings.
(c) Act out in school.
(d) Hurt others.

7. What day does Chick believe was one of the happiest of his mother's life?
(a) The day he began college.
(b) The day he made his first homerun.
(c) The day he got married.
(d) The day he graduated high school.

8. What does Chick's mother wear the day she drives him to his first day of college?
(a) A business suit.
(b) A nursing uniform.
(c) A modest dress.
(d) A purple pantsuit.

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

10. Why did Miss Thelma call Chick chickadoodle-do?
(a) He looked like a rooster.
(b) He often walked all over people.
(c) He often screamed for people from the backyard.
(d) He had a stutter that made he talk strangely.

11. What did this caller in Section 4: Part 1 want from Chick?
(a) To offer him a job.
(b) To give Posey a message.
(c) To sell him insurance.
(d) To play in an old-timers ball game.

12. Why does Chick not allow his mother to go up to his dorm room with him?
(a) He does not want her to be oogled by his roommate.
(b) He is afraid she will make a fool of herself.
(c) He is embarrassed by her presence.
(d) He does not want her in his personal space.

13. How much longer after this injury did Chick continue to play baseball professionally?
(a) Six years.
(b) Sixteen months.
(c) Six months.
(d) Six weeks.

14. What does Chick not want to be, what frightens him about his death?
(a) That he will be remembered as the man who alienated his child.
(b) That he will be remembered as a drunk.
(c) That he will be remembered as ordinary.
(d) That he will be remembered as a failure.

15. 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) Perfect.
(c) How could you?
(d) Good boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Thelma's family think she is doing?

2. What is the one thing Len Benetto ever said about Posey to Chick?

3. What does Chick say when his mother asks about his wife, Catherine?

4. Why does Chick admit he continued to play baseball all through his childhood?

5. What does Rose say is the only part of her that is still young?

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