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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Lies to My Mother, Chapters 25-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were Margaret's sisters better off in life than she was?
(a) They moved to better parts of the country.
(b) They became educated.
(c) They married better.
(d) They had fewer children to care for.

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

3. What did Margaret mean when she told Sam and Mark that Rick is "travelin'"?
(a) He was having a seizure.
(b) He was taking a walk.
(c) He was daydreaming.
(d) He was reading another book.

4. 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.

5. Why did Sam become the school's janitor according to Rick?
(a) Because he was not smart enough to do anything else.
(b) Because they never taught him that he had other opportunities.
(c) Because he never learned to read.
(d) Because he never wanted to be anything else.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the boys stop fighting with each other?

2. What did Charlie tell Margaret about going back to her husband when she came home for the second time?

3. What did Kovach tell Rick to answer the next time someone asks him where he learned how to write?

4. Who came to the city auditorium to talk to the white people of the county?

5. What kind of a leader was Papa Doc to Haiti?

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