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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. Why does Chick's mother tell him she will have to take him to his ball game in Section 2: Part 1?
(a) His father was gone.
(b) His father had an accident.
(c) His father did not want to.
(d) His father was out of town.

2. Why does Chick tell Roberta the truth about Santa Claus that first Christmas after Len left the family?
(a) He thinks believing in Santa is childish.
(b) He thinks Posey is trying to trick them.
(c) He believes that believing in Santa is hurting Roberta.
(d) He misses his dad and does not want his mother to try to take her place.

3. 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) Two hours.
(d) Four hours.

4. Why did Chick and his sister have trouble accepting that their parents were going to get divorced?
(a) They often spoke of separation.
(b) They always got back together.
(c) They often spent time apart.
(d) They often fought.

5. What does Posey say when Chick tells her she died?
(a) He has a wild imgination.
(b) He makes too much of things.
(c) It was a mistake.
(d) It was just a bad dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator later find that added to the narrator's information used to write this novel?

2. Who notices the narrator in the Introduction as the narrator watches the action going on?

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. Where does Chick go after he wakes from his fall from the water tower?

5. How did Len Benetto propose to Posey?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event caused Chick Benetto to lose faith in himself?

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

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

4. Why does Chick Benetto drive toward his home town?

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

6. What was Posey's profession at the time of the divorce?

7. What game does the narrator learn that Chick Benetto once played as a professional player?

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

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

10. Why does the narrator say the story belongs to Chick Benetto?

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