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

2. What does Rick hope his story will accomplish?
(a) Get at great truths.
(b) Make the dead dance with the living.
(c) To bring his family closer together.
(d) Heal his soul.

3. How old was Rick when he married?
(a) In his late twenties.
(b) In his mid-twenties.
(c) In his early twenties.
(d) In his early thirties.

4. What was meant by the quote "didn't have no papers on him."?
(a) The hospital did not have papers on the dead baby.
(b) The baby was never christened.
(c) No records were kept of dead babies.
(d) The baby never existed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What school did Rick attend at the age of 33?

2. What statue stands in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham?

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

4. What story brought Rick back home in 1994?

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

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