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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Rick view his time in high school?
(a) He worked too hard at his job to take time for it.
(b) He worked hard at it.
(c) He learned a lot from it.
(d) He wasted it.

2. In general, how did Rick Bragg feel about religion as he always had?
(a) He is fervent about it.
(b) He believes it is detrimental.
(c) He is apathetic about it.
(d) He never found the joy of it as he had seen others have.

3. 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 harder on his father.
(d) That he wasn't there when he shot a woman through her breasts.

4. How long after quitting high school did Margaret get her GED?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Twenty-five years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Five years.

5. What did the redbird do that makes Rick question life?
(a) It attacked its own reflection.
(b) It hurled itself into a pool.
(c) It threw its baby from the nest.
(d) It flew into a glass door.

6. In 1971 what did the fraternity do at Christmas?
(a) They brought Christmas trees to the poor children.
(b) They collected toys for the poor children.
(c) They took the poor children to the soup kitchen.
(d) They had a party for the poor children.

7. How did Sam torture Rick in the outhouse?
(a) He locked him in with a tomcat.
(b) He told him the hole will swallow him up.
(c) He would make him close the door to darkness.
(d) He would leave him there alone in the middle of the night.

8. When did the boys stop fighting with each other?
(a) When one of them gets hurt.
(b) When momma hits them with a hickory branch.
(c) When momma cries.
(d) When momma yells.

9. What did Margaret eat when the children were small?
(a) Only bread.
(b) What is given to her by others.
(c) What falls to the floor.
(d) The scraps from their plates.

10. When sober, how did Bobby Bragg dress for dinner?
(a) In a clean shirt.
(b) In overalls.
(c) In a full suit.
(d) With a shirt and tie.

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

12. How did Charles kill the assassin in Korea?
(a) He drowned him.
(b) He strangled him.
(c) He stabbed him.
(d) He shot him.

13. 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.

14. What kind of a man is Rick's bother, Sam?
(a) Hard drinker and fighter.
(b) Criminal.
(c) Successful.
(d) Hard worker.

15. What did Margaret expect Rick's father to do after she poured his whiskey down the drain?
(a) Hit her.
(b) Leave.
(c) Find more likker.
(d) Stop drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was "Dinner on the Ground"?

2. What did Rick find himself wishing for at the funeral home?

3. What crime did John Sparks commit?

4. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?

5. What payment was most likely used for the doctor who helped give birth to Rick's mother?

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