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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 perfume on a hog reference to in the chapter of that title?
(a) Educated and Uneducated.
(b) Rich and Poor.
(c) Harvard and Rick.
(d) The North and the South.

2. What did momma lecture Rick about on the rare occasions that she lectured?
(a) Envy.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) False pride.
(d) Religion.

3. In what era did Rick's parents grow up?
(a) The 40s and 50s.
(b) The 50s and 60s.
(c) The 60s and 70s.
(d) The 20s and 30s.

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

5. What did the poor black family down the road do for Rick's family?
(a) They invited them to their church.
(b) They brought them bread to eat.
(c) They brought them corn to eat.
(d) They invited them over for dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the soldiers of Haiti randomly shoot the poor?

2. What did the foreign correspondents eat at the Montana Hotel in Haiti?

3. What made Rick finally write the book?

4. What did Kovach tell Rick to answer the next time someone asks him where he learned how to write?

5. What was Rick's first course in college?

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