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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Margaret's first real toy?
(a) A doll.
(b) A red wagon.
(c) A stuffed bear.
(d) A wooden turtle on a string.

2. How old was Charles when he died?
(a) 51.
(b) 41.
(c) 61.
(d) 31.

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

4. What life lesson did Rick's mother teach him that he broke when he made fun of a boy for having lice?
(a) That everyone needs love.
(b) That no one should be laughed at.
(c) That poor people should be treated with extra care.
(d) That everyone deserves a certain amount of dignity.

5. What was acceptable practice and what was not in the foothills?
(a) Beating your childen and missing church.
(b) Not to be able to read; not to be able to dance.
(c) Not to be able to read; not to be able to fight.
(d) Fighting and drinking.

6. What is the story of the widow's mite?
(a) A woman who shuns the church because her husband dies.
(b) A poor woman who gave to the temple and God recognized the gift.
(c) A widowed woman who takes in poor children.
(d) A woman who is infested with bugs.

7. What caused Margaret to lose her job as a cotton picker?
(a) The government.
(b) Machines.
(c) She was too slow at it.
(d) Migrant workers.

8. What did Rick write in the Jacksonville News?
(a) Sports news.
(b) Local news.
(c) Obituaries.
(d) Entertainment news.

9. What does Rick hope his story will accomplish?
(a) Heal his soul.
(b) Make the dead dance with the living.
(c) Get at great truths.
(d) To bring his family closer together.

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

11. What did Rick tell his first girlfriend about his family?
(a) A lie: that they are rich.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Not much just that they are like everyone else.
(d) The truth: that they are poor.

12. What did Margaret expect Rick's father to do after she poured his whiskey down the drain?
(a) Stop drinking.
(b) Leave.
(c) Find more likker.
(d) Hit her.

13. What memory does Rick recall of his grandmother and himself when he was five?
(a) Making cookies.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Listening to the radio in bed with her.
(d) Dancing in the kitchen.

14. What war was Rick's father in?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Dessert Strom.
(c) World War II.
(d) Korean.

15. What did Sam and Rick do to their father on the night he attempted to hit Rick?
(a) They called their grandfather.
(b) They ran and hid.
(c) They ran to the neighbors.
(d) They beat him.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What did the box contain that Rick's father gave to him on his last visit?

3. What did Rick's mother do without so that her boys could have school clothes?

4. What happened to the letters Margaret received from Charles while he was in Korea?

5. How did Rick view his time in high school?

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