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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Rick's father teach him that helped him get to his job as a reporter even though many saw him as a loser?
(a) To fight dirty.
(b) To get what you want out of life.
(c) To work hard.
(d) To never take nothin' form nobody.

3. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?
(a) Buzzard.
(b) Crow.
(c) Pidgeon.
(d) Eel.

4. What instrument did Rick's grandmother play?
(a) Fiddle.
(b) Harp.
(c) Banjo.
(d) Guitar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Rick finally write the book?

2. What bet did Uncle Jimbo win for twenty dollars?

3. What life lesson did Rick's mother teach him that he broke when he made fun of a boy for having lice?

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

5. What kind of a man is Rick's bother, Sam?

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