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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What payment was most likely used for the doctor who helped give birth to Rick's mother?
(a) Bumdrum's homemade likker.
(b) Bumdrum's live chickens.
(c) Ham.
(d) Money.

3. What did the box contain that Rick's father gave to him on his last visit?
(a) Ammunition.
(b) Dirty books.
(c) Classical literature.
(d) Car magazines.

4. What was the name of Rick's first reading group at school?
(a) Crows.
(b) Blue Jays.
(c) Cardinals.
(d) Jaybirds.

5. How did Charles kill the assassin in Korea?
(a) He strangled him.
(b) He stabbed him.
(c) He shot him.
(d) He drowned him.

6. What was Rick's mother's response when he asked her if he could write the book?
(a) "Whatever you think best, son."
(b) "Tell the truth in it, son."
(c) "Write it; I sat quiet for fifty years."
(d) " Why would you want to tell our story?"

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

8. What did Margaret eat when the children were small?
(a) The scraps from their plates.
(b) What is given to her by others.
(c) Only bread.
(d) What falls to the floor.

9. How did Sam torture Rick in the outhouse?
(a) He told him the hole will swallow him up.
(b) He would leave him there alone in the middle of the night.
(c) He would make him close the door to darkness.
(d) He locked him in with a tomcat.

10. Why did Rick tell his family's story?
(a) To record his mother's sacrifices.
(b) To make himself feel better.
(c) To forgive his father.
(d) To make his brothers feel better.

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

12. When did the boys stop fighting with each other?
(a) When momma hits them with a hickory branch.
(b) When momma yells.
(c) When momma cries.
(d) When one of them gets hurt.

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

14. How would Bobby Bragg fix his hip when it went out on him?
(a) His wife would pull his leg until it popped back in.
(b) He would have his sons pull his leg.
(c) He would go to the doctor.
(d) He would drink a lot of whiskey.

15. What did Charlie tell Margaret about going back to her husband when she came home for the second time?
(a) She should never go back.
(b) She must be obedient to her husband.
(c) If she went back, Charlie would kill him.
(d) She could go back, but not with her son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Margaret expect Rick's father to do after she poured his whiskey down the drain?

2. What work did Rick begin in junior high?

3. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?

4. Why did Margaret bury Rick's muddy sneakers?

5. How old was Charles when he died?

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