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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Posey say to Chick when he asks why she never remarried after her divorce?
(a) Posey said she was happy with her kids and her grandchildren. Life goes by too fast.
(b) Posey said she never found a man the children would approve of.
(c) Posey said she never met another man who could make her as happy as Len Benetto.
(d) Posey said she did not want to change the family dynammic by brining in a stepfather.

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

3. What does Miss Thelma say will be her legacy after she dies?
(a) Her grandchildren's laughter.
(b) Her friends.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her reputation for hard work.

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

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

6. What request did Posey make for her own funeral after seeing the custom at Jewish funerals?
(a) That the mourners bury her before sundown ont he day she died.
(b) That the mourners throw roses on her coffin.
(c) That the mourners step on a peice of glass before her coffin.
(d) That the mourners throw shovels full of dirt on her coffin.

7. Who taught Chick how to shave?
(a) An uncle.
(b) His father.
(c) A boyfriend of his mother's.
(d) His mother.

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

9. 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 got married.
(c) The day he made his first homerun.
(d) The day he graduated high school.

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

11. Why did Posey lose her job at the hospital?
(a) She was not a good nurse.
(b) She was late too often.
(c) She distracted the patients.
(d) She complained about a doctor's inappropriate behavior.

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

13. Why did Posey say she wanted to include a unique Jewish custom at her own funeral?
(a) To reduce the cost of the funeral.
(b) To help the mourners let the body go and celebrate the spirit.
(c) To add something unique to her funeral.
(d) To keep the mourners from getting bored.

14. What would Posey tell her children when they would ask about patients she cared for who had died?
(a) That they were in a better place.
(b) That they went home.
(c) That they no longer felt pain.
(d) That they no longer needed her care.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suddenly shows up at one of Chick's college baseball games, causing him to fight back emotion?

2. Who is the first woman Chick and Posey visit that day?

3. What does Chick not want to be, what frightens him about his death?

4. What one thing would Chick change about the day his mother died?

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

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