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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 does perfume on a hog reference to in the chapter of that title?
(a) The North and the South.
(b) Harvard and Rick.
(c) Educated and Uneducated.
(d) Rich and Poor.

2. What happened to the letters Margaret received from Charles while he was in Korea?
(a) She gave them to Rick when he gets older.
(b) He threw them away one night.
(c) They were burned.
(d) She shredded them.

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

4. What did Rick's wife tell him that scared him out of the marriage?
(a) She did not want him traveling for his stories.
(b) He only cared about his work.
(c) She thought she was pregnant.
(d) He worked too late.

5. Who drove Margaret to the hospital when she gave birth to Rick?
(a) Grandma Ava.
(b) Grandpa Charlie.
(c) Aunt Gracie Juanita.
(d) Rick's dad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the wall in Brooklyn that Rick wrote about?

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

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

4. What does Rick say about this book?

5. What became of Sam?

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