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

2. What else does "bodega" mean besides "store"?
(a) Death.
(b) Financial freedom.
(c) Freedom, respect, and dignity.
(d) Hard work.

3. In general, how did Rick Bragg feel about religion as he always had?
(a) He believes it is detrimental.
(b) He is fervent about it.
(c) He is apathetic about it.
(d) He never found the joy of it as he had seen others have.

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

5. What was the reason that Charles whipped his daughter Margaret at the age of thirteen?
(a) Kickin' her sister so hard in bed one night.
(b) Takin' the truck out for a short ride in the fields.
(c) Talkin' back to her mother.
(d) Takin' a sip of likker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sam and Rick do to their father on the night he attempted to hit Rick?

2. What did the box contain that Rick's father gave to him on his last visit?

3. What did Rick go home for in the year that he was in Haiti?

4. What was "Dinner on the Ground"?

5. What did Margaret mean when she told Sam and Mark that Rick is "travelin'"?

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