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

2. 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) Is he ill.
(b) Can he stay all day.
(c) Is he dead.
(d) Is Catherine joining them.

3. What musical object does Chick compare small towns to?
(a) Clarinet reed.
(b) Violin string.
(c) Metronome.
(d) Piano key.

4. What phrase does Chick feel fits him well?
(a) Blundering back to God.
(b) Tiime will tell.
(c) Poor truant, passionate fool.
(d) Life is a beach.

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?
(a) Impossible.
(b) How.
(c) Why.
(d) Mom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Roberta hide the carvings she and Chick made in their mother's kitchen table when their mother returned from work?

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

3. Why does Chick claim he did not check on the driver of the truck involved in his accident?

4. Who told Chick he could only be a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, not both?

5. During a night of heavy drinking, where does Chick decide to go?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Chick say after breakfast that causes his mother to question him?

3. What phrase does Chick feel describes him completely?

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

5. Why does the narrator in the Introduction say you might call this novel a ghost story?

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

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

8. To whose wedding is Chick Benetto not invited?

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

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

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