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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 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.

2. What did momma lecture Rick about on the rare occasions that she lectured?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) False pride.
(c) Envy.
(d) Religion.

3. What reason did grandpa Charlie have for shooting a neighbor woman?
(a) She lied about his stealing.
(b) She told the police he made likker.
(c) She came at him with a knife.
(d) She hit one of his children.

4. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?
(a) Eel.
(b) Buzzard.
(c) Crow.
(d) Pidgeon.

5. Where did Margaret take the children to find "treasure"?
(a) Restaurant trash bins.
(b) Neighbors trash bins.
(c) The dump.
(d) Store trash bins.

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

7. Who drove Margaret to the hospital when she gave birth to Rick?
(a) Grandma Ava.
(b) Aunt Gracie Juanita.
(c) Grandpa Charlie.
(d) Rick's dad.

8. In 1971 what did the fraternity do at Christmas?
(a) They collected toys for the poor children.
(b) They had a party for the poor children.
(c) They took the poor children to the soup kitchen.
(d) They brought Christmas trees to the poor children.

9. How long did Rick have the 1969 convertible?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) All of high school.
(d) His whole life.

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. What did the poor black family down the road do for Rick's family?
(a) They invited them to their church.
(b) They invited them over for dinner.
(c) They brought them corn to eat.
(d) They brought them bread to eat.

15. What is the last line of the Prologue?
(a) "I forgive you, Papa."
(b) "Do you hear me, grandma?"
(c) "Forgive me Momma."
(d) "God help me, Momma, if I am clumsy."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What made Rick finally write the book?

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

5. What sickness killed Rick's father?

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