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

2. What does Chick notice as he, his mother, and Miss Thelma drive through town?
(a) He does not know any of the people they see, young or old.
(b) There are no people out and about.
(c) Old people are everywhere and they all seem to know his mother.
(d) The town has changed since he last visited.

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

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

5. What does the caller say when Chick answers the phone at Rose's house?
(a) He speaks Chick's name and says there was an accident.
(b) He tries to sell Chick life insurance.
(c) He says he is Rose's husband, but her husband is dead.
(d) He asks for Rose's husband, but he is dead.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. 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.

12. 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 ashamed of him.
(c) She is not as great as his mother recalls.
(d) He is a drunk and a loser.

13. What did chick always think was important to a person's memory?
(a) The woman he married.
(b) The children he left behind.
(c) His surname.
(d) The caliber of profession that followed his name.

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

15. Why does Posey tell Chick in Section 3: Part 2 that she did not want to ask for money from his father?
(a) He did not have it.
(b) She did not need any more from him.
(c) She did not need money.
(d) She was too proud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose say when Posey asks about her children?

2. Why did Miss Thelma call Chick chickadoodle-do?

3. How does Chick Benetto feel that he lost his father?

4. 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?

5. What does Chick imagine his mother saying to him as he performs the Jewish custom she requested at her funeral?

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