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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rick regret about his grandfather?
(a) That he didn't do better by his daughter.
(b) That he never met him.
(c) That he wasn't there when he shot a woman through her breasts.
(d) That he wasn't harder on his father.

3. When did Rick first meet his father?
(a) When he was fifteen.
(b) When he was ten.
(c) When he was two.
(d) When he was five.

4. What did the redbird do that makes Rick question life?
(a) It flew into a glass door.
(b) It attacked its own reflection.
(c) It threw its baby from the nest.
(d) It hurled itself into a pool.

5. What made Rick finally write the book?
(a) His mother's death.
(b) His grandfather's death.
(c) His father's death.
(d) His grandmother's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rick's mother do without so that her boys could have school clothes?

2. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?

3. What war was Rick's father in?

4. How long did Rick put off writing his book?

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

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