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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Lies to My Mother, Chapters 16-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rick went home in 1988, how long had it been since he spent the holidays there?
(a) Five years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Seven years.

2. What did Rick see at church that he stated was one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen?
(a) A healing.
(b) A child singing a hymn.
(c) A soul being saved.
(d) A baptism.

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

4. What did Rick and Uncle Ed both acknowledge early on about Rick's future?
(a) That he will find a good job someday.
(b) That he will be stuck working hard for no money.
(c) That he will leave home and never return.
(d) That he will end up just like his father.

5. What is the last line of the Prologue?
(a) "I forgive you, Papa."
(b) "God help me, Momma, if I am clumsy."
(c) "Do you hear me, grandma?"
(d) "Forgive me Momma."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Aunt Mary Jo take the children out for to eat?

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

3. What did Sam ask from Rick in return for his staying behind in Alabama and Rick going out into the world?

4. What did Rick's grandmother die from?

5. What reason did grandpa Charlie have for shooting a neighbor woman?

(see the answer key)

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