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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, The Widow's Mite, Chapters 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Sam torture Rick in the outhouse?
(a) He would make him close the door to darkness.
(b) He would leave him there alone in the middle of the night.
(c) He locked him in with a tomcat.
(d) He told him the hole will swallow him up.

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

5. What did NOT change in Rick's parents' world as the times change?
(a) The religion.
(b) The scenery.
(c) The clothing.
(d) The music.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Rick tell his family's story?

2. What city's bombing did Rick mention that he writes about?

3. What memory does Rick recall of his grandmother and himself when he was five?

4. Why were Margaret's sisters better off in life than she was?

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

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