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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 Rick's mother do without so that her boys could have school clothes?
(a) Sweets.
(b) A nice house.
(c) New shoes.
(d) A new dress.

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

3. How does Rick describe the area in which his parents were born and raised?
(a) The poor Old South.
(b) The land of poor churches.
(c) The monied South.
(d) Bible country.

4. What city's bombing did Rick mention that he writes about?
(a) Hiroshima.
(b) Pearl Harbor.
(c) Port au Prince.
(d) Oklahoma City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did Rick's grandmother play?

2. What does Rick say about the book being called a memoir?

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 was Rick's mother's response when he asked her if he could write the book?

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