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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Rick working in the winter of 1964 as Chapter 16 opened?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Boston Herald.
(c) The Jacksonvill News.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

2. What part of the NY Times staff helped Rick the most when he first got there?
(a) The news staff.
(b) The fluff piece staff.
(c) The photo staff.
(d) The editors.

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

4. What story brought Rick back home in 1994?
(a) A church that was hit by a tornado.
(b) A gunman who opened fire at a church.
(c) A hurricane that tore down a school.
(d) A woman who killed her children.

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

6. What did Margaret do at the buffet in New York City that both surprised and amused Rick?
(a) She asked a waiter to get her food.
(b) She walked around and around without taking anything.
(c) She took five desserts.
(d) She took three entrees.

7. What statue stands in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Bear Bryant.
(d) Rosa Parks.

8. What else does "bodega" mean besides "store"?
(a) Death.
(b) Freedom, respect, and dignity.
(c) Hard work.
(d) Financial freedom.

9. What did the woman tell Rick who he met at a seminar at the end of the book?
(a) That one must forget the past and move on.
(b) That from him she learned not to be ashamed of where she came from.
(c) That she should not put on hold the nice things in life.
(d) That material items cannot fulfill dreams.

10. What did Rick's new friends at Harvard teach him?
(a) You can't go through life looking back at the past.
(b) You can't go through life hating people.
(c) You can't go through life hating people who had it easier than you.
(d) You can't go through life wishing things were different.

11. What did the foreign correspondents eat at the Montana Hotel in Haiti?
(a) Lobster.
(b) Vegetarian.
(c) Pasta.
(d) Steak.

12. How long had momma lived in the little house?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Forty years.
(d) Twenty years.

13. What did Rick keep as a reminder of the night he went out on a dangerous story with Sean?
(a) A shirt.
(b) A copy of the story.
(c) A rock.
(d) A steering wheel.

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

15. What happened to Rick when he was out on the boat in the Everglades?
(a) He was bitten by a gator.
(b) He was led to believe that they were fishing for gators.
(c) He was tricked into taking pictures of gators.
(d) He fell into the water with the gators.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did Rick travel to the first time he went out of the country to write a story?

4. What did Rick never do alone?

5. What storm stopped Rick from leaving for his Fellowship on the day he was supposed to?

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