For One More Day by Mitch Albom

Although the story is mostly told from Chick's point of view, the real narrator is...

• his mom, Posey

• his daughter, Maria

• his wife

• his father, Len

Chick played the Old Timers baseball game because...

• they begged him to play since he was so famous

• his mother wanted to watch him play one last time

• his daughter promised to come see him

• his father got him a place when someone else couldn't go

Chick felt guilty that he left for the baseball game and lied to his mother that he was required to go on a business trip because...

• it was his mother's birthday and she died while he was gone

• his daughter got married while he was away

• he was actually cheating on his wife with another woman and son

• he didn't want to play baseball but it paid really well

Chick tried to commit suicide by...

• shooting himself

• driving his car off a cliff

• jumping off a water tower

• using a baseball bat

Chick was probably divorced because...

• he was cheating with another woman

• his daughter hated him

• he was lazy and didn't make any money at all as a salesman

• he had become an alcoholic

Chick blamed his mother when...

• the mummy costume she made for him fell apart in the rain.

• she didn't buy him a Spiderman costume that he'd always wanted.

• she told him to make his own costume but he didn't know how.

• no one would give him Halloween candy.

The neighbor wouldn't give Chick's little sister a second bar of candy because...

• his sister was overweight.

• his sister was extremely rude and demanding.

• she realized they were Posey's children and told them their mother should stay away from her husband because she felt threatened by a beautiful divorcee.

• she knew Chick and his sister had too much candy already.

Posey lost her job as a nurse because...

• she got into a fight with the other nurses.

• she had an affair with a married doctor.

• she was lazy and insensitive to patients.

• doctors began to sexually harass her and she tried to stand up for herself.

When Chick was visited by his mother's spirit, he learned that...

• his father had another wife and son in another city that his mother never told him about, and that's why she had asked for a divorce.

• his mother became a maid and beautician because she wasn't qualified to be a nurse.

• his half brother was terrible at baseball, and that's why his father always pushed him to practice on his own.

• his mother had cheated on his father, so that's why his father left them.

The woman who supposedly interviewed Chick and wrote his story probably came to understand that Chick...

• was an incurable alcoholic or didn't care about anyone but himself.

• was a terrible father and husband because he never wanted a child in the first place.

• was trying his best but depressed and turning to alcohol because he felt he was unsuccessful and because he had lingering guilt.

• was a famous baseball player because even though he had not talent he worked extra hard every single day.