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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Oldest Living Chicago Cub.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Annie convince her mother to reveal Mark's plans?
(a) By saying women should stick together.
(b) By having Karin ask her.
(c) By bribing her.
(d) By telling her if she lies, she'll go to Hell.

2. What happens as Ray leaves his seat at the game in "They Tore Down the Polo Grounds in 1964"?
(a) Ray is distracted and walks into a steel girder.
(b) Ray knocks over a concession worker.
(c) JD Salinger asks to leave the game early.
(d) Someone sitting next to him spills their drink on Ray's lap.

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

4. In the beginning of the book, how does Ray prevent his grass from being ruined in a freeze?
(a) Trick question! The turf is ruined by a freeze.
(b) By spraying water on it to freeze it.
(c) By mowing it in the middle of the night to knock the frost off.
(d) By keeping the floodlights on to keep it above freezing.

5. Annie teases Ray that he couldn't know J.D. Salinger, but Ray feels that J.D. Salinger somehow knows him. How?
(a) He remembers that J.D. Salinger used to know his father.
(b) The voice told Ray that J.D. Salinger knows him.
(c) He used his name in a story.
(d) J.D. Salinger used to live in Iowa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ray say is his astrological sign?

2. Where is Eddie Scissons buried?

3. What position player is Ray excited to see finally appear on the field?

4. What position does Archie Graham play when Shoeless Joe asks him to be on the field?

5. What happens in Moonlight Graham's first at bat on Ray's field?

(see the answer key)

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