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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the one thing Len Benetto ever said about Posey to Chick?
2. What does Chick's mother wear the day she drives him to his first day of college?
3. Why did Posey lose her job at the hospital?
4. What does Chick say when his mother asks about his wife, Catherine?
5. What does Posey stress to Chick as being the most important thing in his life while he is college?
Short Essay Questions
1. What explanation does Posey give to Chick about how people are dying call her to their sides?
2. Who encouraged Chick to drop out of college?
3. Why did Chick not want his mother to go to his dorm room with him?
4. Whose voice does Chick hear as he goes to open the door at his mother's house in Section 3, Part 1?
5. On whom does Chick blame the break up of his marriage?
6. What does Miss Thelma claim will keep her memory alive for years to come?
7. What metaphor did Posey often use for the death of her patients when she was a nurse?
8. Who gave Chick his nickname?
9. What job does Chick learn his mother did in order to help pay his college tuition?
10. What does Chick admit embarrassed him about his mother as a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following and explain how it is a turning point within the plot:
1) Chick's car accident
2) The visit to Miss Thelma
3) The visit to the home of Chick's father
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the writer's style. Discuss in detail the writer's choice to structure his book in the way he has, the use of the newspaper clips and lists, his choice of words, his use of dialogue, and his choice of chapter names. Discuss how each of these choices affects the reader's overall impression of the novel and the themes within the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Whose voice does Chick hear on the phone at Rose's? When does Chick hear the voice again? Why does Chick believe he is the only one hearing the voice? Where is the voice coming from? Who does the voice belong to? What does this voice represent to Chick? What does Chick do about this voice?
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