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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. How late for work was Chick on the Monday morning after receiving the evidence of the family event he missed?
(a) One hour.
(b) Three hours.
(c) Four hours.
(d) Two hours.

2. Why does Chick refuse to give up baseball even after his father has left the family?
(a) He likes baseball.
(b) He wants to annoy his mother.
(c) He still wants a connection to his father.
(d) He likes the coach.

3. Why did the doctor who delivered Chick tell Posey she had to deliver by dinner time?
(a) It cost extra if he had to work through dinner.
(b) He did not want her to go hungry.
(c) He had another patient scheduled for surgery.
(d) His wife was making fish sticks.

4. Why did Chick Benetto once wish his mother would leave him alone?
(a) She was smothering him.
(b) She was too critical.
(c) She was full of too much bad advice.
(d) She was rude and unkind.

5. What line does Chick Benetto feel he crossed?
(a) The line of no return that leads to suicide.
(b) The line between life and death.
(c) The line between morality and sin.
(d) The line between right and wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Chick and his sister have trouble accepting that their parents were going to get divorced?

2. Who supposedly attempted to kill himself/herself?

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?

4. Why does the narrator tell the reader in the Introduction that they might not believe the story?

5. When is the first time Chick heard the word divorcee as a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To whose wedding is Chick Benetto not invited?

3. When is the first time Chick's mother leaves him a special note?

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

5. What word did Chick's mother help Chick find the definition for despite his father's disapproval of her help?

6. What is Posey's reaction to Chick's insistence that her presence in the house is impossible?

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

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

9. Why did Chick have a problem with how his mother would leave him at school?

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

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