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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, The Widow's Mite, Chapters 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sickness killed Rick's father?
(a) Cirrhosis.
(b) Hepititus.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Tuburculosis.

2. 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.

3. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?
(a) Buzzard.
(b) Eel.
(c) Crow.
(d) Pidgeon.

4. What did NOT change in Rick's parents' world as the times change?
(a) The clothing.
(b) The music.
(c) The scenery.
(d) The religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rick Bragg mostly write about as a reporter?

3. What was the house like that Rick's father brought them to when Rick was six years old?

4. What was Margaret's first real toy?

5. What kind of a man is Rick's brother, Mark?

(see the answer key)

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