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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 Chick say when his mother asks about his wife, Catherine?
(a) Nothing.
(b) He lies, saying they are still together.
(c) They split up.
(d) He lies, saying she is sick.

2. What voice does Chick hear as he goes to answer the door in his mother's house after their visit to Rose?
(a) An old friend from his childhood.
(b) A bill collector at the door.
(c) A man claiming to be a police officer.
(d) A ghost calling to his mother.

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

4. What does Posey say a child who is embarrassed by is mother is?
(a) A child who needs a good spanking.
(b) A child who has not lived long enough.
(c) A child who needs a lesson in virtue.
(d) A child who is selfish.

5. What does Posey tell Chick in a note just after he began college is not a license to be mean to girls?
(a) His athletic ability.
(b) His handsomness.
(c) His financial status.
(d) His intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose say when Posey asks about her children?

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

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

4. What three things did Posey once tell Chick he needed to be successful?

5. Who is the Italian woman that Posey and Chick go to visit last?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Chick suspect he is suffering from temporary insanity?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who encourages Chick to leave town the day of his mother's birthday? Why?

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