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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 the foreign correspondents eat at the Montana Hotel in Haiti?
(a) Lobster.
(b) Pasta.
(c) Steak.
(d) Vegetarian.

2. What did Rick's new friends at Harvard teach him?
(a) You can't go through life hating people who had it easier than you.
(b) You can't go through life hating people.
(c) You can't go through life wishing things were different.
(d) You can't go through life looking back at the past.

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

4. What is the story of the widow's mite?
(a) A woman who shuns the church because her husband dies.
(b) A poor woman who gave to the temple and God recognized the gift.
(c) A woman who is infested with bugs.
(d) A widowed woman who takes in poor children.

5. How long did Rick have the 1969 convertible?
(a) His whole life.
(b) All of high school.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became of Sam?

2. What happened to the letters Margaret received from Charles while he was in Korea?

3. Why was Rick so nervous about his Fellowship interview?

4. What did Margaret mean when she told Sam and Mark that Rick is "travelin'"?

5. What does Rick say of the errors that occur in his story?

(see the answer key)

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