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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Rick say about this book?
(a) That he wrote it for himself.
(b) That it is a story meant only for his family.
(c) That everyone should read it.
(d) That it is not important.

4. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?
(a) Eel.
(b) Pidgeon.
(c) Buzzard.
(d) Crow.

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

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

7. What work did Rick begin in junior high?
(a) Hauling trash.
(b) Working in Uncle Ed's store.
(c) Moving dirt and clearing land.
(d) Cleaning stalls.

8. What crime did John Sparks commit?
(a) Rape.
(b) Theft.
(c) Murder.
(d) Arson.

9. What did Rick write in the Jacksonville News?
(a) Obituaries.
(b) Entertainment news.
(c) Sports news.
(d) Local news.

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

11. Why were Margaret's sisters better off in life than she was?
(a) They married better.
(b) They became educated.
(c) They moved to better parts of the country.
(d) They had fewer children to care for.

12. 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.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the redbird do that makes Rick question life?

2. What did Charlie tell Margaret about going back to her husband when she came home for the second time?

3. In general, how did Rick Bragg feel about religion as he always had?

4. What did Rick tell his first girlfriend about his family?

5. What caused Margaret to lose her job as a cotton picker?

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