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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Getting Even With Life, Chapters 34-42.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the one big award that Rick desired?
(a) The Nobel Prize.
(b) Peabody Award.
(c) The National Correspondent Award.
(d) The Pulitzer Prize.

4. What is the story of the widow's mite?
(a) A woman who is infested with bugs.
(b) A widowed woman who takes in poor children.
(c) A poor woman who gave to the temple and God recognized the gift.
(d) A woman who shuns the church because her husband dies.

5. How did Rick compare himself to his father?
(a) He said they are completely different.
(b) He said that in many ways they were the same.
(c) He said that his father's faults made him a better man.
(d) He said that he is a winner and his father a loser.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was acceptable practice and what was not in the foothills?

2. Who went to Charles's funeral?

3. What happened to Rick when he was out on the boat in the Everglades?

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

5. Why did Margaret hang Rick's awards on her walls?

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