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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What injury did Chick suffer during spring training while playing professional baseball?
(a) A broken leg.
(b) A knee injury.
(c) An elbow injury.
(d) A broken arm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Chick not allow his mother to go up to his dorm room with him?
(a) He is embarrassed by her presence.
(b) He is afraid she will make a fool of herself.
(c) He does not want her to be oogled by his roommate.
(d) He does not want her in his personal space.

10. What does Rose say when Posey asks about her children?
(a) They check on her once a week, like a chore.
(b) They never come to see her.
(c) They come to see her daily.
(d) They are all doing well, but in distant cities.

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

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

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

14. What happens when Miss Thelma's grandchildren come into her bedroom?
(a) They cannot see Chick and Posey.
(b) They can only see Posey.
(c) They cannot see Miss Thelma.
(d) They can only see Chick.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Posey say children often do when they are hurting?

2. What does Chick learn about his mother while he and she are visiting with Miss Thelma?

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

4. Why does Posey tell Chick in Section 3: Part 2 that she did not want to ask for money from his father?

5. What request did Posey make for her own funeral after seeing the custom at Jewish funerals?

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