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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. Who calls down to Chick from upstairs as he stands in the kitchen of his mother's abandoned house in Section 2, Part 1?
(a) His mother.
(b) A bum.
(c) A homeless woman.
(d) His daughter.

2. Why did Chick Benetto once wish his mother would leave him alone?
(a) She was too critical.
(b) She was smothering him.
(c) She was rude and unkind.
(d) She was full of too much bad advice.

3. What does Posey remind Chick to do as he eats?
(a) Eat faster.
(b) Eat less.
(c) Eat more.
(d) Eat slower.

4. What does the narrator see that draws her to the place where she will meet the main character of the novel?
(a) Old men tossing a ball around.
(b) Kids in purple t-shirts pitching and hitting.
(c) A flower filled cemetery.
(d) Kids playing on the beach.

5. Who does the narrator claim the story from this novel belongs to?
(a) Pauline 'Posey' Benetto.
(b) Maria Benetto.
(c) Charles 'Chick' Benetto.
(d) Len Benetto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the narrator come to Pepperville Beach?

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

3. Why does Chick refuse to give up baseball even after his father has left the family?

4. How many visits does Posey tell Chick she must make that day?

5. What causes Chick to crash his car in Section 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What word did Chick's mother help Chick find the definition for despite his father's disapproval of her help?

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

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

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

7. Who tells the narrator about Chick Benetto?

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

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

10. Why did Posey refer to Chick as a Daddy's boy?

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