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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Aunt Mary Jo take the children out for to eat?
(a) Fried crappie.
(b) Ice cream sundays.
(c) Foot long hot dogs.
(d) Cheeseburgers.

2. What does Rick say about the book being called a memoir?
(a) It makes him proud.
(b) He finds it appropriate.
(c) It is too fancy a name for him.
(d) He thinks it is wrongly named.

3. What does Rick say of the errors that occur in his story?
(a) They are there to protect people.
(b) They are lies to hide truths.
(c) They are only his perceptions.
(d) They are lies created to entertain.

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

5. What does Rick say about this book?
(a) That everyone should read it.
(b) That he wrote it for himself.
(c) That it is a story meant only for his family.
(d) That it is not important.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rick Bragg mostly write about as a reporter?

2. What memory does Rick recall of his grandmother and himself when he was five?

3. What did Rick find himself wishing for at the funeral home?

4. What did Rick's father teach him that helped him get to his job as a reporter even though many saw him as a loser?

5. Why did Rick tell his family's story?

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