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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What overall statement did Rick make about Miami?
(a) "You live and die in Miami."
(b) "From beauty to trash, Miami has it all."
(c) "Miami is a crazy city."
(d) "Miami is a bad day in paradise."

2. What did Rick compare time lost to?
(a) A poor night's sleep.
(b) A quarter in an unlucky slot machine.
(c) A bad piece of fruit.
(d) A lost piece of jewelry.

3. What did Rick go home for in the year that he was in Haiti?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) The birth of Sam's son.
(d) Grandma's death.

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

5. What did Rick's wife tell him that scared him out of the marriage?
(a) She did not want him traveling for his stories.
(b) He only cared about his work.
(c) She thought she was pregnant.
(d) He worked too late.

6. What change was made at the NY Times in Rick's first article?
(a) The headline.
(b) Much of the grammar.
(c) Most of the story.
(d) A comma.

7. What happened in 1991 that Rick got to experience that terrified him deeply?
(a) A riot in Miami.
(b) A young boy getting killed in an accident.
(c) A murder in a grocery store.
(d) A train wreck with many left dead.

8. How did Margaret react to her trip to New York City?
(a) She was thrilled and astonished.
(b) She was too afraid to really experience it.
(c) All she wanted to do was to go home.
(d) She was speechless.

9. What did the young South Carolina woman say happened to her two boys?
(a) That she does not know what happened to them.
(b) That a black man jumped in her car and drove away with them in it.
(c) That a Hispanic boy car jacked them.
(d) That she left them in the car unattended when she came back, they were gone.

10. In writing about sports, what did Rick come to realize were the only types of stories that he wanted to write?
(a) Football.
(b) Car racing.
(c) The ones in which people struggle.
(d) Death.

11. What was the main question that people asked in Rick's hometown after the incident in 1994 that brought him back home to write a story?
(a) Where was God when it happened?
(b) What had the people done wrong to be punished?
(c) What do we do next?
(d) Why would God hurt the poor?

12. What was the wall in Brooklyn that Rick wrote about?
(a) A division between races.
(b) A tribute to those killed in the streets there.
(c) A tribute to the leaders of the gangs.
(d) A memorial to soldiers.

13. What kind of people did Rick write about from Immokalee, Florida?
(a) Criminals.
(b) The homeless.
(c) Crew bosses.
(d) Poor migrant workers who drank too much.

14. What did Sam give Rick to take back to Miami with him?
(a) A gun.
(b) Deer meat.
(c) A sack of pine cones.
(d) A hard hat.

15. How long did Rick work for the L.A. Times?
(a) One month.
(b) One year.
(c) One winter.
(d) One week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story brought Rick back home in 1994?

2. What did Mark build in the woods?

3. What did Rick tell him momma that he wrote about?

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

5. What did the foreign correspondents eat at the Montana Hotel in Haiti?

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