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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 Charlie tell Margaret about going back to her husband when she came home for the second time?
(a) She should never go back.
(b) She must be obedient to her husband.
(c) If she went back, Charlie would kill him.
(d) She could go back, but not with her son.

2. Who came to the city auditorium to talk to the white people of the county?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Albert Brewer.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) George Wallace.

3. What does Rick say about the book being called a memoir?
(a) He finds it appropriate.
(b) He thinks it is wrongly named.
(c) It makes him proud.
(d) It is too fancy a name for him.

4. What was the reason that Charles whipped his daughter Margaret at the age of thirteen?
(a) Kickin' her sister so hard in bed one night.
(b) Takin' the truck out for a short ride in the fields.
(c) Takin' a sip of likker.
(d) Talkin' back to her mother.

5. What does Rick Bragg mostly write about as a reporter?
(a) Politics.
(b) War.
(c) Death.
(d) Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What payment was most likely used for the doctor who helped give birth to Rick's mother?

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

3. What war was Rick's father in?

4. What sickness killed Rick's father?

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

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