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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 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 Catherine joining them.
(c) Is he dead.
(d) Is he ill.

2. Why did Posey choose a tree to place her prayer in?
(a) Trees are God's favorite vegetation.
(b) Trees have special meaning in her religion.
(c) Trees spend all day looking up at God.
(d) The tree was just convenient.

3. Why does Chick believe Posey lost all her friends after the divorce?
(a) Everyone sided with Len.
(b) She became depressed and unplesant to be around.
(c) No one wanted to associate with a divorcee.
(d) Other women were threatened by her charm and beauty.

4. What question does the narrator pose at the end of the Introduction?
(a) What if you got one day back with a dead loved one.
(b) What if you got one day to repair all your mistakes.
(c) What if you got one day to be whoever you want.
(d) What if you got one day with a lost love.

5. Why does Chick Benetto believe he was not invited to this family event?
(a) He does not get along with his ex-wife.
(b) He does not get along with his extended family.
(c) His drinking made him an embarrassment.
(d) His attitude made him unwelcome.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Posey tell Chick this word is supposed to represent?

3. Why did Posey begin working as a hairstylist when Chick was a child?

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

5. What one word was the only one Chick could manage to say when his mother, who had been dead eight years, entered the kitchen in Section 2: Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Chick say he felt he became a Mommy's boy?

2. What happens on the way to Chick's hometown?

3. Why did Chick's parents feel the need to get married quickly?

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

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

6. Who does Chick see when he jumps from the water tower?

7. What impact does the setting have on Chick's family after the divorce?

8. What after school activity did Chick pick even after his father left?

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

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

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