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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 kind of scholarship did Chick get to help pay for college?
(a) A track scholarship.
(b) A football scholarship.
(c) An academic scholarship.
(d) A baseball scholarship.

2. What does Miss Thelma say will be her legacy after she dies?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her reputation for hard work.
(c) Her grandchildren's laughter.
(d) Her children.

3. What does the caller say when Chick answers the phone at Rose's house?
(a) He tries to sell Chick life insurance.
(b) He asks for Rose's husband, but he is dead.
(c) He speaks Chick's name and says there was an accident.
(d) He says he is Rose's husband, but her husband is dead.

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

5. Why did Miss Thelma call Chick chickadoodle-do?
(a) He looked like a rooster.
(b) He often screamed for people from the backyard.
(c) He had a stutter that made he talk strangely.
(d) He often walked all over people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Chick claim was a ghost throughout his childhood?

2. How does Chick come to accept the events taking place after he jumped from the water tower?

3. After a night in which Posey thought she heard an intruder in the night, why does Chick say he will be angry with his mother until he leaves that house?

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 Posey insist she and Chick do after supper on their one more day together?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Chick admit embarrassed him about his mother as a child?

3. What does Chick claim he does not want to be?

4. Whose voice does Chick hear as he goes to open the door at his mother's house in Section 3, Part 1?

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

6. Why was Posey fired from her job as a nurse?

7. Why does Posey suggest Len got involved with this second woman while he was in the war, even though he was already engaged to Posey?

8. What did Marie write in the memory book at her grandmother's funeral?

9. What explanation does Posey give to Chick about how people are dying call her to their sides?

10. Who gave Chick his nickname?

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