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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 kind of a leader was Papa Doc to Haiti?
(a) Hopeful.
(b) Dictatorial.
(c) A savior.
(d) Cruel.

2. How did Rick try to buy his way into heaven?
(a) By buying his girlfriend a car.
(b) By buying his brother a business.
(c) By buying his momma a pair of dentures.
(d) By buying his ex-wife a baby carriage.

3. Why do the soldiers of Haiti randomly shoot the poor?
(a) To sell their bodies back to their families.
(b) Because the poor cause riots.
(c) Because the poor are beggars and thieves.
(d) To teach others a lesson.

4. Why did Rick lose his job at the Birmingham paper?
(a) He became too full of himself.
(b) He chose to cover only certain stories.
(c) He had a fight with his boss.
(d) He called out sick a lot.

5. What statue stands in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Bear Bryant.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sam end up finding his career?

2. What overall statement did Rick make about Miami?

3. When did Rick come to realize that Susan was guilty of killing her own children?

4. What was Rick's first story about as a news reporter for the Anniston Star?

5. What did momma feel about Mark's jail terms?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the stories that Rick experienced in Clearwater?

2. What happened when the American soldiers finally came to Haiti?

3. At Thanksgiving in the new house, what did Rick and Sam learn?

4. What comparisons did Rick make between himself and his father? How did he feel about the comparisons?

5. Why didn't Rick remain married to his young bride?

6. What was the riot like that Rick experienced in Miami and how did it affect him?

7. What was the Susan Smith story that Rick covered?

8. Why did momma move out of the new house?

9. How did Mark's life affect momma and why?

10. Why did Rick hate Haiti?

(see the answer keys)

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