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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. Why did Chick believe his father stopped coming around after he quit baseball?
(a) Baseball was their only connection.
(b) Len moved away.
(c) Len did not like Chick's wife.
(d) Len was ashamed of Chick.

2. What one thing would Chick change about the day his mother died?
(a) He could have saved her.
(b) That Maria found her.
(c) That she died alone.
(d) That he was not there.

3. When Chick's father asks to drive him home from a college baseball game, what does he do that causes Chick to feel all is right with the world?
(a) Apologizes for leaving the family.
(b) Explains his decision for not seeing Chick throughout his childhood.
(c) Offers to pay for a new glove.
(d) Shows respect for the coach.

4. What does Chick learn about this woman that upsets him the most?
(a) She was a sports reporter who could have helped his career.
(b) She gave his father a son.
(c) She was the reason his father left the family.
(d) She was a grandmother he never met.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why would Chick pick up Roberta after school every day shortly after the divorce?

3. Who is the first woman Chick and Posey visit that day?

4. What does Posey say children often do when they are hurting?

5. Over dinner, what does Chick request his mother tell him about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who encouraged Chick to drop out of college?

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

6. What job does Chick learn his mother did in order to help pay his college tuition?

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 do Posey and Chick talk about over dinner?

9. On whom does Chick blame the break up of his marriage?

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

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