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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the house like that Rick's father brought them to when Rick was six years old?
(a) Just big enough for all of them.
(b) Big but decrepit.
(c) A mansion.
(d) Small, but in good shape.

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

3. How old was Charles when he died?
(a) 51.
(b) 41.
(c) 61.
(d) 31.

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

5. What reason did grandpa Charlie have for shooting a neighbor woman?
(a) She hit one of his children.
(b) She came at him with a knife.
(c) She told the police he made likker.
(d) She lied about his stealing.

6. Who went to Charles's funeral?
(a) Only the three boys.
(b) Only momma.
(c) Momma and the three boys.
(d) Only Rick.

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

8. What did Rick and Uncle Ed both acknowledge early on about Rick's future?
(a) That he will find a good job someday.
(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 leave home and never return.

9. When did Rick first meet his father?
(a) When he was five.
(b) When he was ten.
(c) When he was fifteen.
(d) When he was two.

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

11. Who came to the city auditorium to talk to the white people of the county?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Albert Brewer.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

12. What is the story of the widow's mite?
(a) A woman who shuns the church because her husband dies.
(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 is infested with bugs.

13. What sickness killed Rick's father?
(a) Tuburculosis.
(b) Cirrhosis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Hepititus.

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

15. What did Grandma Ab do the last time her grandchildren drove away with their father and mother?
(a) She ran out into the middle of the road and stared.
(b) She begged Rick's father to leave them be.
(c) She held onto Rick and won't let go.
(d) She screamed and cried for them not to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rick say of the errors that occur in his story?

2. When did the boys stop fighting with each other?

3. What did NOT change in Rick's parents' world as the times change?

4. Why was Rick rushed to the hospital as a young boy?

5. What does Rick say about this book?

(see the answer keys)

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