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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 Aunt Mary Jo take the children out for to eat?
(a) Fried crappie.
(b) Ice cream sundays.
(c) Foot long hot dogs.
(d) Cheeseburgers.

2. How did Charles feel about going to Korea to kill soldiers?
(a) He was afraid to go.
(b) He had no problem with the notion.
(c) He thought it was a party.
(d) He did not think about it one way or another.

3. What did Rick find himself wishing for at the funeral home?
(a) A way to spend more time with his mother.
(b) Another day with his grandmother.
(c) Heaven.
(d) God.

4. What reason did grandpa Charlie have for shooting a neighbor woman?
(a) She told the police he made likker.
(b) She lied about his stealing.
(c) She hit one of his children.
(d) She came at him with a knife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What crime did John Sparks commit?

2. What did Mark build in the woods?

3. Why do the soldiers of Haiti randomly shoot the poor?

4. What did Grandma Ab do the last time her grandchildren drove away with their father and mother?

5. Rosario told Rick that he confronted the armed man in his store for what reason?

(see the answer key)

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