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

2. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?
(a) To buy a house.
(b) To close on a house that had been in the family for years.
(c) To bury a relative.
(d) To visit a relative.

3. Where does Chick go after he wakes from his fall from the water tower?
(a) To his current home.
(b) To his wife's home.
(c) To his childhood home.
(d) To his daughter's home.

4. Why does the narrator claim they chose to write the novel in another person's voice?
(a) To make it more believable.
(b) To add to the mystery.
(c) To make it more romantic.
(d) To make it more suspenseful.

5. When is the first time Chick heard the word divorcee as a child?
(a) When his father said it after a baseball game.
(b) When the housekeeper said it to his mother.
(c) When his mother said it to a friend.
(d) When his father said it about his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which did Chick chose to be as a small child, a daddy's boy or a momma's boy?

2. What did Chick and his sister use to carve their initials into their mother's kitchen table?

3. Why did Chick Benetto once wish his mother would leave him alone?

4. How did Len Benetto propose to Posey?

5. Where did Posey met Len Benetto?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who tells the narrator about Chick Benetto?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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