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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Rick say that men did instead of rioting?
(a) They danced.
(b) They listened to loud music.
(c) They played football.
(d) They watched dog fights.

2. What are the cemeteries like in Haiti?
(a) Guarded as no one is allowed in.
(b) So full the caretakers don't know where they put people.
(c) Well kept as life is sacred.
(d) Empty because they burn the bodies.

3. How old was Rick when he married?
(a) In his late twenties.
(b) In his mid-twenties.
(c) In his early twenties.
(d) In his early thirties.

4. What was different about Thanksgiving in the new house?
(a) Rick got his own bed.
(b) Momma had guests.
(c) Mark came sober.
(d) They all got to sit together in one room.

5. What did Rick state as the reason that Mark was sober for the funeral?
(a) Mark did it out of respect for his grandmother.
(b) Mark didn't want his family to see him drunk.
(c) Mark was trying to get sober for his mother.
(d) Mark grieved like good men do.

6. What did Kovach tell Rick to answer the next time someone asks him where he learned how to write?
(a) Kovach.
(b) Rick.
(c) The South.
(d) God.

7. What did Rick do for Dirty Red?
(a) He convinced him to tell his story.
(b) He helped him find a good lawyer.
(c) He sent counseling to his home.
(d) He wrote a story about his innocence.

8. Where did Sam end up finding his career?
(a) At a mechanics shop.
(b) At a constuction sight.
(c) At a bar.
(d) At a cottonmill.

9. What did the eighty-seven year old Miss McCarty do with the money she saved over her lifetime?
(a) Gave it to the local police to protect the poor.
(b) Gave it to the local university for scholarships for the poor.
(c) Gave it to the Red Cross to help the poor.
(d) Gave it to the church to feed the poor.

10. What did Margaret worry about after Rick won his award?
(a) People noticing her more.
(b) Having him stay away for longer periods of time.
(c) Having her picture taken.
(d) Rick getting rougher writing assignments.

11. What did momma feel about Mark's jail terms?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Shame.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

12. Why did momma move out of her new house?
(a) She missed the old house too much.
(b) Sam and Mark had a fight on the front lawn.
(c) She was afraid there by herself.
(d) The dog died at the new house.

13. How did Sam feel about Rick going off to his Fellowship?
(a) Envious.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Upset.
(d) Proud.

14. What was Margaret's response when Rick told her that he got the Fellowship?
(a) "I knew you would honey."
(b) "Lord God, you'll freeze to death."
(c) "Be sure to bring clean clothes."
(d) "Does that mean you won't be visting me."

15. Why didn't Rick take the job he wanted at the St. Petersburg Times?
(a) His new girlfriend asked him not to.
(b) His brother was in trouble again, so he had to go home.
(c) His momma got sick, so he had to go home.
(d) An old friend wanted him to return to the Anniston Star.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rick claim as the highlight of his stay in Tampa?

2. Why did Rick come to dislike Jimmy Carter?

3. Who did Rick direct Chapter 40 to as he talked about momma's new house?

4. Why did Susan Smith kill her two boys?

5. What happened to Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1990?

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