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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Lies to My Mother, Chapters 25-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What school did Rick attend at the age of 33?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Yale.

2. When did the boys stop fighting with each other?
(a) When momma cries.
(b) When one of them gets hurt.
(c) When momma hits them with a hickory branch.
(d) When momma yells.

3. What did Kovach tell Rick to answer the next time someone asks him where he learned how to write?
(a) God.
(b) The South.
(c) Rick.
(d) Kovach.

4. What happened to Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1990?
(a) He was elected for the second time.
(b) He lost the election by poplular vote.
(c) He was assassinated.
(d) He went into exile.

5. What did Rick's father teach him that helped him get to his job as a reporter even though many saw him as a loser?
(a) To never take nothin' form nobody.
(b) To fight dirty.
(c) To work hard.
(d) To get what you want out of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Rick take the job he wanted at the St. Petersburg Times?

2. What did Margaret eat when the children were small?

3. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?

4. What does Rick say about this book?

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

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