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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) That she thinks this whole thing is stupid.
(d) When heaven is done with her, she would like her grandmother back.

3. Why does Chick lie to his family about a trip out of town on his mother's birthday?
(a) So he can sneak out to get a surprise gift.
(b) So he can escape a boring party.
(c) So he can see his mistress.
(d) So he can play in a baseball game.

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

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

6. What does Chick say when his mother asks about his wife, Catherine?
(a) He lies, saying she is sick.
(b) They split up.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He lies, saying they are still together.

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

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

9. What does Posey tell Chick in a note just after he began college is not a license to be mean to girls?
(a) His financial status.
(b) His athletic ability.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) His handsomness.

10. What does Posey find in Chick's room when he is fourteen that causes a battle between the two?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Pornography.

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

12. 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 keep the mourners from getting bored.
(c) To help the mourners let the body go and celebrate the spirit.
(d) To add something unique to her funeral.

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

14. What does Posey say a child who is embarrassed by is mother is?
(a) A child who needs a good spanking.
(b) A child who needs a lesson in virtue.
(c) A child who is selfish.
(d) A child who has not lived long enough.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what team is the scout Chick meets after a game one day during college?

2. What voice does Chick hear as he goes to answer the door in his mother's house after their visit to Rose?

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

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

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

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