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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through They Tore Down the Polo Grounds in 1964.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ray, which position player can teach you everything you need to know about a game?
(a) The left fielder.
(b) The pitcher.
(c) The first basemen.
(d) The catcher.

2. What does Ray offer Salinger to pursued him to come to the baseball game with him?
(a) A baseball hit by Shoeless Joe.
(b) A clod of grass from Ray's field.
(c) Shoeless Joe's cleats.
(d) Nothing-he uses the gun to force Salinger to join him.

3. What does Ray buy in Des Moines?
(a) Grass seed.
(b) Bases.
(c) An autographed baseball.
(d) A gun.

4. Who hears the second message from the voice?
(a) Ray and Karin.
(b) Ray and Annie.
(c) Only Ray.
(d) Ray and Shoeless Joe.

5. Before he became a farmer, what did Ray do for a living?
(a) Life insurance salesman.
(b) Door to door salesman.
(c) Groundskeeper at the college baseball field.
(d) Seed salesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mark do for a living?

2. How does Ray describe the crowd at Fenway?

3. There is something different between Ray's field and others he played on during his life. What is it?

4. In his second vision, what professional baseball park is Ray seated in?

5. Which famous baseball player picked Shoeless Joe as the greatest left fielder of all time?

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