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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 is the day that Chick wanted back?
(a) His mother's seventy-ninth birthday.
(b) The day his father left.
(c) The day he quit baseball.
(d) The birth of his daughter.

2. What does Chick learn about his mother while he and she are visiting with Miss Thelma?
(a) That his mother paid for Miss Thelma's cancer treatments.
(b) That Miss Thelma is a distant relative.
(c) That his mother lived with Miss Thelma for a short time in the past.
(d) That his mother and Miss Thelma cleaned houses together.

3. What news does Rose mention she hear on the radio shortly before Posey and Chick come to visit?
(a) The president was shot.
(b) A bank had been robbed.
(c) There was an accident on the highway.
(d) Someone jumped from the water tower.

4. From what team is the scout Chick meets after a game one day during college?
(a) St. Louis Cardinals.
(b) Pittsburg Pirates.
(c) Texas Rangers.
(d) Chicago White Socks.

5. What is the final thing Posey tells Chick he must love in order to make a marriage work?
(a) His children.
(b) The marriage itself.
(c) Himself.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What voice does Chick hear as he goes to answer the door in his mother's house after their visit to Rose?

3. How does Posey react when Chick asks if he can be with her if he dies?

4. Why does Chick not allow his mother to go up to his dorm room with him?

5. Why does Chick calls his mother a hypocrite when she finds an item hidden in his sock drawer when he is only fourteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who encouraged Chick to drop out of college?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. What does the Italian woman say when she catches sight of Posey and Chick in her mirror?

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