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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, The Widow's Mite, Chapters 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What city's bombing did Rick mention that he writes about?
(a) Hiroshima.
(b) Port au Prince.
(c) Oklahoma City.
(d) Pearl Harbor.

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

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

5. How did Charles feel about going to Korea to kill soldiers?
(a) He did not think about it one way or another.
(b) He thought it was a party.
(c) He was afraid to go.
(d) He had no problem with the notion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sickness killed Rick's father?

2. How does Rick describe the area in which his parents were born and raised?

3. What was the reason that Charles whipped his daughter Margaret at the age of thirteen?

4. What made Rick finally write the book?

5. What did NOT change in Rick's parents' world as the times change?

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