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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Margaret to lose her job as a cotton picker?
(a) The government.
(b) Machines.
(c) She was too slow at it.
(d) Migrant workers.

2. Where did Margaret take the children to find "treasure"?
(a) The dump.
(b) Store trash bins.
(c) Neighbors trash bins.
(d) Restaurant trash bins.

3. Why were the Bragg boys "usual suspects" in the John Sparks case?
(a) Because they were always getting in trouble.
(b) Because the police did not like their father.
(c) Because they often stuck up for black people.
(d) Because they were poor and lived close by.

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

5. What did Rick tell his first girlfriend about his family?
(a) Not much just that they are like everyone else.
(b) The truth: that they are poor.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A lie: that they are rich.

6. What made Rick finally write the book?
(a) His father's death.
(b) His mother's death.
(c) His grandfather's death.
(d) His grandmother's death.

7. What did Rick find himself wishing for at the funeral home?
(a) A way to spend more time with his mother.
(b) God.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Another day with his grandmother.

8. What was the name of Rick's first reading group at school?
(a) Crows.
(b) Cardinals.
(c) Jaybirds.
(d) Blue Jays.

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

10. What does Rick regret about his grandfather?
(a) That he wasn't harder on his father.
(b) That he wasn't there when he shot a woman through her breasts.
(c) That he didn't do better by his daughter.
(d) That he never met him.

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

12. What instrument did Rick's grandmother play?
(a) Guitar.
(b) Harp.
(c) Banjo.
(d) Fiddle.

13. Why did Sam become the school's janitor according to Rick?
(a) Because he never learned to read.
(b) Because they never taught him that he had other opportunities.
(c) Because he never wanted to be anything else.
(d) Because he was not smart enough to do anything else.

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

15. What did Rick and Uncle Ed both acknowledge early on about Rick's future?
(a) That he will leave home and never return.
(b) That he will end up just like his father.
(c) That he will be stuck working hard for no money.
(d) That he will find a good job someday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Margaret get her religion from?

2. How long did Rick put off writing his book?

3. What did momma lecture Rick about on the rare occasions that she lectured?

4. What did Rick's father teach him that helped him get to his job as a reporter even though many saw him as a loser?

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

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