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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. How does Posey react when Chick asks if he can be with her if he dies?
(a) No, she does not want him around.
(b) Now he wants to be with her.
(c) God will not allow it.
(d) Sure, she would love the company.

2. What is a short stay in baseball called?
(a) A glass of milk.
(b) A cup of tea.
(c) A glass of tequilla.
(d) A cup of coffee.

3. What does Chick consider his best day during his college years?
(a) The day his sister joined him at college.
(b) The day his father walked back into his life.
(c) The day he was scouted by a professional baseball team.
(d) The day he met Catherine.

4. What happens when Miss Thelma's grandchildren come into her bedroom?
(a) They cannot see Chick and Posey.
(b) They can only see Chick.
(c) They cannot see Miss Thelma.
(d) They can only see Posey.

5. Who suddenly shows up at one of Chick's college baseball games, causing him to fight back emotion?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His sister.
(d) Miss Thelma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final thing Posey tells Chick he must love in order to make a marriage work?

2. What does Chick say is the best thing that ever happened to him in his career?

3. What happens when Chick hears the strange voice a third and final time?

4. What does Chick believe about his current circumstances now that he knows he is somewhere in limbo between life and death?

5. What does Chick learn about his mother on his fake business trip that makes him regret leaving?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chick hear when he answers the phone at Rose's house?

2. What does Miss Thelma claim will keep her memory alive for years to come?

3. What do Posey and Chick talk about over dinner?

4. What did Posey often do for some of the patients in the hospital where she worked as a nurse?

5. What metaphor did Posey often use for the death of her patients when she was a nurse?

6. Who does Chick say the ghost in his life truly was?

7. To whom does Posey take Chick to visit after dinner?

8. Why was Posey not impressed with Chick's baseball scholarship?

9. What are the two days at college Chick shares with the reader?

10. What do they call a short stay in professional baseball?

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