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

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

3. What did Grandma Ab do the last time her grandchildren drove away with their father and mother?
(a) She ran out into the middle of the road and stared.
(b) She held onto Rick and won't let go.
(c) She begged Rick's father to leave them be.
(d) She screamed and cried for them not to leave.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What instrument did Rick's grandmother play?

3. In general, how did Rick Bragg feel about religion as he always had?

4. What did Rick do for Dirty Red?

5. Why did Sam become the school's janitor according to Rick?

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