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

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

3. What does Posey tell Chick about how she happens to visit people who are dying?
(a) They think of her and that calls her to their sides.
(b) Posey is a sort of guardian angel who goes to help people make the transition to death easier.
(c) God tells her who to visit.
(d) Posey is called to people she offended in life to make amends as they die.

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

5. What happens when Chick hears the strange voice a third and final time?
(a) Chick discovers it has all been a dream.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Chick sees a white light and is separated from his mother.
(d) Chick returns to reality.

6. 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 she is angry with him for not being there with her.
(d) That children should not have to choose between parents.

7. Who suddenly shows up at one of Chick's college baseball games, causing him to fight back emotion?
(a) Miss Thelma.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His sister.

8. Who is the Italian woman that Posey and Chick go to visit last?
(a) Len Benetto's sister.
(b) Len Benetto's wife.
(c) Len Benetto's cousin.
(d) Len Benetto's mother.

9. 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 business suit.
(d) A nursing uniform.

10. What does Miss Thelma's family think she is doing?
(a) Talking to a friend on the phone.
(b) Working a crossword.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Making dinner.

11. How does Chick Benetto feel that he lost his father?
(a) Chick drank too much and his father disapproved.
(b) Chick turned his back on baseball.
(c) Chick was a poor salesman.
(d) Chick's father disliked Chick's wife.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Catherine react two weeks after Posey's death to Chick's confession regarding the fake business trip?

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

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