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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 statue stands in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Bear Bryant.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) George Wallace.

2. What did Rick write in the Jacksonville News?
(a) Local news.
(b) Entertainment news.
(c) Sports news.
(d) Obituaries.

3. What memory does Rick recall of his grandmother and himself when he was five?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Making cookies.
(c) Listening to the radio in bed with her.
(d) Dancing in the kitchen.

4. Why did Sam become the school's janitor according to Rick?
(a) Because he was not smart enough to do anything else.
(b) Because he never learned to read.
(c) Because he never wanted to be anything else.
(d) Because they never taught him that he had other opportunities.

5. What did Rick's grandmother die from?
(a) Kidney failure.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Heart failure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reason that Charles whipped his daughter Margaret at the age of thirteen?

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

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

4. What payment was most likely used for the doctor who helped give birth to Rick's mother?

5. Who drove Margaret to the hospital when she gave birth to Rick?

(see the answer key)

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