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

2. What does Rick hope his story will accomplish?
(a) Get at great truths.
(b) Make the dead dance with the living.
(c) To bring his family closer together.
(d) Heal his soul.

3. What was acceptable practice and what was not in the foothills?
(a) Not to be able to read; not to be able to fight.
(b) Fighting and drinking.
(c) Not to be able to read; not to be able to dance.
(d) Beating your childen and missing church.

4. What happened to Mark in 1965 from which his father saved him?
(a) He was hit by a truck.
(b) He fell in through an icy pond.
(c) He was bitten by a rattlesnake.
(d) He fell out of a tree.

5. Why did Rick tell his family's story?
(a) To forgive his father.
(b) To make himself feel better.
(c) To record his mother's sacrifices.
(d) To make his brothers feel better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rick find himself wishing for at the funeral home?

2. What does Rick regret about his grandfather?

3. How does Rick describe the area in which his parents were born and raised?

4. What did Margaret expect Rick's father to do after she poured his whiskey down the drain?

5. What did Aunt Mary Jo take the children out for to eat?

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