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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 does perfume on a hog reference to in the chapter of that title?
(a) The North and the South.
(b) Rich and Poor.
(c) Harvard and Rick.
(d) Educated and Uneducated.

2. Why did Rick love his 1969 convertible so much in high school?
(a) The other guys loved it, so they paid attention to him.
(b) It made him feel equal to the other high school kids.
(c) It allowed him to get the pretty girls.
(d) It allowed him to escape his small town.

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

4. Why was Rick rushed to the hospital as a young boy?
(a) He fell into the hole in the outhouse and broke his arm.
(b) He punched his brother and broke his hand.
(c) He fell out of a tree and broke his leg.
(d) He sucked a plastic berry up his nose.

5. 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 had fewer children to care for.
(d) They married better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What overall statement did Rick make about Miami?

2. What kind of stories did Rick write for the St. Petersburg Times while living in St. Petersburg after the Fellowship?

3. What did NOT change in Rick's parents' world as the times change?

4. Where did Margaret get her religion from?

5. Why did the serial diner keep committing the same crime?

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