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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was "Dinner on the Ground"?
(a) A church picnic.
(b) When the mothers allow the children to eat in front of the TV.
(c) A family outing.
(d) When father throws the food in anger.

2. What was Margaret's first real toy?
(a) A red wagon.
(b) A doll.
(c) A stuffed bear.
(d) A wooden turtle on a string.

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

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

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

6. Where did Margaret get her religion from?
(a) TV preachers.
(b) Reading The Bible.
(c) A pastor comes to visit her every Sunday.
(d) Church.

7. 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) He thinks it is wrongly named.
(d) It makes him proud.

8. What does Rick Bragg mostly write about as a reporter?
(a) Washington.
(b) Politics.
(c) Death.
(d) War.

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

10. What was Rick's first course in college?
(a) Literature.
(b) Journalism.
(c) Creative Writing.
(d) Compostition.

11. What was meant by the quote "didn't have no papers on him."?
(a) No records were kept of dead babies.
(b) The hospital did not have papers on the dead baby.
(c) The baby never existed.
(d) The baby was never christened.

12. What famous singer did grandma tell Rick that she met before he died?
(a) Johnny Cash.
(b) Frank Sinatra.
(c) Perry Como.
(d) Hank Williams.

13. What did Margaret mean when she told Sam and Mark that Rick is "travelin'"?
(a) He was reading another book.
(b) He was having a seizure.
(c) He was daydreaming.
(d) He was taking a walk.

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

15. What was acceptable practice and what was not in the foothills?
(a) Not to be able to read; not to be able to fight.
(b) Not to be able to read; not to be able to dance.
(c) Fighting and drinking.
(d) Beating your childen and missing church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the Bragg boys "usual suspects" in the John Sparks case?

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

3. What happened to the letters Margaret received from Charles while he was in Korea?

4. Why did Rick tell his family's story?

5. How did Sam torture Rick in the outhouse?

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