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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Mark in 1965 from which his father saved him?
(a) He was bitten by a rattlesnake.
(b) He was hit by a truck.
(c) He fell out of a tree.
(d) He fell in through an icy pond.

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

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

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

5. What does Rick say about this book?
(a) That it is a story meant only for his family.
(b) That it is not important.
(c) That he wrote it for himself.
(d) That everyone should read it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rick hope his story will accomplish?

2. What kind of a man is Rick's brother, Mark?

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

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

5. What war was Rick's father in?

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