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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chick think about his visit to his mother two years after her death?
(a) Chick believes he is having an alcohol induced hallucination.
(b) Chick does not question it at all.
(c) Chick begins to question his perceptions.
(d) Chick believes he has died.

2. How many visits does Posey tell Chick she must make that day?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

3. What question does Posey ask Chick that causes him to insist that her being in the kitchen eight years after her death is impossible?
(a) Can he stay all day.
(b) Is he dead.
(c) Is he ill.
(d) Is Catherine joining them.

4. What profession does the narrator regret telling he/she currently work as?
(a) The narrator is a professional ball player.
(b) The narrator is a lawyer.
(c) The narrator is a writer.
(d) The narrator is a doctor.

5. What sport does the narrator claim the main character once played?
(a) Football.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Hockey.
(d) Basketball.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chick Benetto blame for the destruction of his marriage?

2. Where does the narrator claim to have found the main character of this novel one Saturday morning?

3. Who did Chick one day catch using binoculars to stare in his mother's bedroom windows shortly after the divorce?

4. What phrase does Chick feel fits him well?

5. Who supposedly played in the World Series?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who tells the narrator about Chick Benetto?

2. What causes Chick's mother to stop playing her favorite record?

3. Why does the narrator in the Introduction say you might call this novel a ghost story?

4. What one thing does Chick recall always made his parents happy?

5. Why does Chick return to his family home? What does he find there?

6. What offends Chick when a man calls his mother a divorcee?

7. What reason does Posey give for dumping food given to the family by nuns down the disposal?

8. What draws Chick's attention to the table top in his mother's kitchen as his mother treats his wounds?

9. Why is the word please carved into the side of tree?

10. What question does the narrator pose at the end of the Introduction?

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