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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Lies to My Mother, Chapters 16-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bet did Uncle Jimbo win for twenty dollars?
(a) He stole one of grandpa's jugs of whiskey without getting caught.
(b) He painted a naked lady on Gracie's car.
(c) He ate a bologna sandwich while sitting on a dead donkey.
(d) He bet Uncle Bill's car will start.

2. Why were Margaret's sisters better off in life than she was?
(a) They became educated.
(b) They married better.
(c) They moved to better parts of the country.
(d) They had fewer children to care for.

3. What does Rick regret about his grandfather?
(a) That he never met him.
(b) That he wasn't there when he shot a woman through her breasts.
(c) That he wasn't harder on his father.
(d) That he didn't do better by his daughter.

4. How did the weather make the war worse in Korea?
(a) It was always raining.
(b) It was boiling hot.
(c) It was freezing cold.
(d) It was terribly windy.

5. What school did Rick attend at the age of 33?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Rick's mother's response when he asked her if he could write the book?

2. Why were the Bragg boys "usual suspects" in the John Sparks case?

3. Who went to Charles's funeral?

4. How old was Charles when he died?

5. When Rick went home in 1988, how long had it been since he spent the holidays there?

(see the answer key)

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