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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 story did Rick write about in Clearwater that marked him forever?
(a) About a man who married his daughter.
(b) About Siamese twins.
(c) About a woman who dies twenty years after her attack.
(d) About poachers.

2. How long did Rick have the 1969 convertible?
(a) His whole life.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) All of high school.
(d) Six months.

3. What did Rick's mother do without so that her boys could have school clothes?
(a) A nice house.
(b) Sweets.
(c) New shoes.
(d) A new dress.

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

5. What did Rick claim as the highlight of his stay in Tampa?
(a) The hurricanes.
(b) A serial killer.
(c) A surfer named Topsy.
(d) A story about a chicken named Mopsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would Bobby Bragg fix his hip when it went out on him?

2. What did Rick's wife tell him that scared him out of the marriage?

3. What did Rick do for Dirty Red?

4. What did Rick never do alone?

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

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