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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, The Widow's Mite, Chapters 8-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Margaret eat when the children were small?
(a) Only bread.
(b) What falls to the floor.
(c) The scraps from their plates.
(d) What is given to her by others.

2. How long did Rick put off writing his book?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Twenty years.

3. What did Rick tell his first girlfriend about his family?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Not much just that they are like everyone else.
(c) The truth: that they are poor.
(d) A lie: that they are rich.

4. Why were Margaret's sisters better off in life than she was?
(a) They moved to better parts of the country.
(b) They became educated.
(c) They married better.
(d) They had fewer children to care for.

5. What does Rick say of the errors that occur in his story?
(a) They are there to protect people.
(b) They are lies created to entertain.
(c) They are only his perceptions.
(d) They are lies to hide truths.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Margaret take the children to find "treasure"?

2. What was the reason that Charles whipped his daughter Margaret at the age of thirteen?

3. What did Rick write in the Jacksonville News?

4. What does Rick regret about his grandfather?

5. When sober, how did Bobby Bragg dress for dinner?

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