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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Lies to My Mother, Chapters 25-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Mark in 1965 from which his father saved him?
(a) He was hit by a truck.
(b) He was bitten by a rattlesnake.
(c) He fell in through an icy pond.
(d) He fell out of a tree.

2. What was the reason that Charles whipped his daughter Margaret at the age of thirteen?
(a) Talkin' back to her mother.
(b) Kickin' her sister so hard in bed one night.
(c) Takin' a sip of likker.
(d) Takin' the truck out for a short ride in the fields.

3. Where did Margaret get her religion from?
(a) Reading The Bible.
(b) Church.
(c) A pastor comes to visit her every Sunday.
(d) TV preachers.

4. What did Rick tell him momma that he wrote about?
(a) Animals.
(b) Gangs in the streets of various cities around the world.
(c) Happy stories.
(d) Sports.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in the country store when Rick went in to buy drinks while working one summer?

2. What are the cemeteries like in Haiti?

3. What did Rick say that men did instead of rioting?

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

5. What kind of a man is Rick's brother, Mark?

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