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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 stupid and a waste of time.
(c) That they are special.
(d) That they are silly.

2. How did Posey come to find out about the Italian woman?
(a) She went to Collinswood where Len Benetto bought her a house.
(b) She heard a rumor from a neighbor.
(c) She got a phone call from the woman one day.
(d) She saw a picture of the woman in Len Benetto's wallet.

3. Why did Chick believe his father stopped coming around after he quit baseball?
(a) Len was ashamed of Chick.
(b) Len moved away.
(c) Baseball was their only connection.
(d) Len did not like Chick's wife.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Chick consider his best day during his college years?
(a) The day his sister joined him at college.
(b) The day his father walked back into his life.
(c) The day he met Catherine.
(d) The day he was scouted by a professional baseball team.

10. 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 was made salesman of the year.
(c) He played in the Super Bowl.
(d) He played in the All-Star game.

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

12. Why does Chick calls his mother a hypocrite when she finds an item hidden in his sock drawer when he is only fourteen?
(a) She does drugs.
(b) She drinks.
(c) She looks at pornography.
(d) She smokes.

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

14. 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 cannot see Miss Thelma.
(d) They can only see Posey.

15. Why does Chick admit he continued to play baseball all through his childhood?
(a) He hoped it would bring his father back into his life.
(b) He hoped it would teach him the values his father should have taught him.
(c) He hoped it would help him become rich and famous.
(d) He hoped it would mean a way out of his mother's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a night in which Posey thought she heard an intruder in the night, why does Chick say he will be angry with his mother until he leaves that house?

2. What is the final thing Posey tells Chick he must love in order to make a marriage work?

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

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

5. Why did Posey lose her job at the hospital?

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