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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was "Dinner on the Ground"?
(a) When father throws the food in anger.
(b) When the mothers allow the children to eat in front of the TV.
(c) A family outing.
(d) A church picnic.

2. How long after quitting high school did Margaret get her GED?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Twenty-five years.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the story of the widow's mite?

2. Why was Rick rushed to the hospital as a young boy?

3. What trait does Rick believe he inherited from his father?

4. Where did Margaret get her religion from?

5. What life lesson did Rick's mother teach him that he broke when he made fun of a boy for having lice?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the boys feel so out of place in their new home that their father moved them to when Rick was six?

2. Why was Rick one of the usual suspects after a crime was committed, and how did he react to the whole situation?

3. What kind of a father did Rick have?

4. Why does Rick miss his grandmother's death?

5. How poor was Margaret while raising her small children?

6. What did the Bragg men talk about on the front porch over whiskey after dinner?

7. When did Rick choose to write this memoir and why?

8. What did Rick come to realize at the Fraternity Christmas Party, and how did he feel about it?

9. What did the poor black boy bring to Rick's family, and what does Rick think about it now that he is an older man?

10. Why does Rick state more than once that this is not an important book?

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