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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. 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) It no longer mattered.
(c) That he deserved to feel guilty.
(d) That he should go back and leave them alone.

2. What did Chick's fourteen-year-old daughter write in the memory book at her grandmother's funeral?
(a) When heaven is done with her, she would like her grandmother back.
(b) That she is angry with God for stealing her grandmother away.
(c) That she thinks this whole thing is stupid.
(d) That she hopes her grandmother will finally find peace in heaven.

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

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

5. Why did Posey lose her job at the hospital?
(a) She was not a good nurse.
(b) She distracted the patients.
(c) She was late too often.
(d) She complained about a doctor's inappropriate behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chick admit he continued to play baseball all through his childhood?

2. What does Miss Thelma say will be her legacy after she dies?

3. What does Chick learn about his mother on his fake business trip that makes him regret leaving?

4. What is the day that Chick wanted back?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was Posey not impressed with Chick's baseball scholarship?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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