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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 stop at a convenience store to buy in Section 1?
(a) Beer.
(b) Wine.
(c) Soda pop.
(d) Whiskey.

2. Why did Len Benetto often spend long chunks of time away from his family?
(a) To spend time with his biological family.
(b) To help reduce the friction at home.
(c) To visit with liquor distributors and to manage his new store in a town an hour away.
(d) To spend time with his friends.

3. What word does Posey show Chick carved into the tree?
(a) Help.
(b) Baby.
(c) God.
(d) Please.

4. Who brings food to Chick with instructions that he take it home to his family shortly after his parents' divorce?
(a) A local teacher.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) A couple of nuns.
(d) A priest.

5. Why does the narrator tell the reader in the Introduction that they might not believe the story?
(a) The story is not true.
(b) The narrator does not believe the story.
(c) The story revolves around the main characters one day visit with his dead mother.
(d) The story is unusual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession does the narrator regret telling he/she currently work as?

2. What did Chick's mother often slip to Chick whenever she dropped him off somewhere?

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

4. What did Posey and Len fight about most often when Chick was a child?

5. Why did the doctor who delivered Chick tell Posey she had to deliver by dinner time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the narrator later find belonging to Chick Benetto that was used in writing this book?

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

7. To whose wedding is Chick Benetto not invited?

8. What phrase does Chick feel describes him completely?

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

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

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