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

2. What does Chick consider the worst day of his college career?
(a) The day his father stopped coming to his games.
(b) The day he flunked out.
(c) The day his sister dropped out.
(d) The day he dropped out to become a professional ball player.

3. What happens when Miss Thelma's grandchildren come into her bedroom?
(a) They can only see Chick.
(b) They can only see Posey.
(c) They cannot see Miss Thelma.
(d) They cannot see Chick and Posey.

4. What would Posey tell her children when they would ask about patients she cared for who had died?
(a) That they were in a better place.
(b) That they no longer needed her care.
(c) That they went home.
(d) That they no longer felt pain.

5. Who suddenly shows up at one of Chick's college baseball games, causing him to fight back emotion?
(a) His sister.
(b) Miss Thelma.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession did Chick get into after baseball?

2. Why did Chick believe his father stopped coming around after he quit baseball?

3. What does Posey say a child who is embarrassed by is mother is?

4. What kind of scholarship did Chick get to help pay for college?

5. Why did Posey say she wanted to include a unique Jewish custom at her own funeral?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. To whom does Posey take Chick to visit after dinner?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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