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

2. How did Catherine react two weeks after Posey's death to Chick's confession regarding the fake business trip?
(a) That he should have told her the truth to begin with.
(b) That he should go back and leave them alone.
(c) That he deserved to feel guilty.
(d) It no longer mattered.

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

4. What does Posey say to Chick when he asks why she never remarried after her divorce?
(a) Posey said she was happy with her kids and her grandchildren. Life goes by too fast.
(b) Posey said she never found a man the children would approve of.
(c) Posey said she never met another man who could make her as happy as Len Benetto.
(d) Posey said she did not want to change the family dynammic by brining in a stepfather.

5. What does Chick consider his best day during his college years?
(a) The day his sister joined him at college.
(b) The day he met Catherine.
(c) The day he was scouted by a professional baseball team.
(d) The day his father walked back into his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chick say is the best thing that ever happened to him in his career?

2. What dish does this Italian woman make that Posey thinks Len Benetto always wanted over Posey's version of the same dish?

3. How did Posey come to find out about the Italian woman?

4. What injury did Chick suffer during spring training while playing professional baseball?

5. What day does Chick believe was one of the happiest of his mother's life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who encouraged Chick to drop out of college?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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