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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 does Posey stress to Chick as being the most important thing in his life while he is college?
(a) Making money.
(b) An education.
(c) His health.
(d) Sports.

2. What does Chick imagine his mother saying to him as he performs the Jewish custom she requested at her funeral?
(a) Perfect.
(b) How could you?
(c) Good boy.
(d) Could you do it a little better?

3. What does Rose say is the only part of her that is still young?
(a) Her eyes.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her heart.
(d) Her hearing.

4. What did chick always think was important to a person's memory?
(a) The caliber of profession that followed his name.
(b) The children he left behind.
(c) His surname.
(d) The woman he married.

5. How much longer after this injury did Chick continue to play baseball professionally?
(a) Sixteen months.
(b) Six years.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dish does this Italian woman make that Posey thinks Len Benetto always wanted over Posey's version of the same dish?

2. What request did Posey make for her own funeral after seeing the custom at Jewish funerals?

3. How did Posey come to find out about the Italian woman?

4. What did this caller in Section 4: Part 1 want from Chick?

5. Why can Posey not find another nursing job?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when Chick hears the strange voice once again?

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

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

6. Why did Chick not want his mother to go to his dorm room with him?

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

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

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

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

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