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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rose say is the only part of her that is still young?
(a) Her heart.
(b) Her hearing.
(c) Her hair.
(d) Her eyes.

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. How does Chick come to accept the events taking place after he jumped from the water tower?
(a) He called it temporary insanity.
(b) He thinks he is dead.
(c) He thought he had jumped through a time warp.
(d) He decides it is a hallucination and he should go with it.

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

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

10. In a note written to Chick on his wedding day, what does Posey say she knows Chick thinks of the notes?
(a) That they are well written.
(b) That they are special.
(c) That they are stupid and a waste of time.
(d) That they are silly.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Chick say about this person his mother brags about while doing Rose's hair?
(a) She is ashamed of him.
(b) She no longer wants to be a part of his life.
(c) He is a drunk and a loser.
(d) She is not as great as his mother recalls.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Chick believe his father stopped coming around after he quit baseball?

2. What did chick always think was important to a person's memory?

3. Why does Chick lie to his family about a trip out of town on his mother's birthday?

4. Over dinner, what does Chick request his mother tell him about?

5. What kind of scholarship did Chick get to help pay for college?

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