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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 caliber of profession that followed his name.
(b) His surname.
(c) The woman he married.
(d) The children he left behind.

2. Why would Chick pick up Roberta after school every day shortly after the divorce?
(a) Roberta insisted.
(b) It was more convenient for him to do it.
(c) Posey was just too embarrassing.
(d) Their mother was working.

3. What profession did Chick get into after baseball?
(a) Sales.
(b) Coaching.
(c) Business owner.
(d) Computer programming.

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

5. 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) Shows respect for the coach.
(b) Explains his decision for not seeing Chick throughout his childhood.
(c) Offers to pay for a new glove.
(d) Apologizes for leaving the family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Miss Thelma do for the Benetto family when Chick was a little boy?

2. What does Miss Thelma's family think she is doing?

3. What is a short stay in baseball called?

4. What happens when Chick hears the strange voice a third and final time?

5. What does Rose say is the only part of her that is still young?

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 do Posey and Chick talk about over dinner?

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

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

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

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

8. Who gave Chick his nickname?

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

10. Who encouraged Chick to drop out of college?

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