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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Louis Bolivar make seven days a week in Haiti?
(a) Clubs.
(b) Chairs.
(c) Knives.
(d) Coffins.

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

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

5. What was the one big award that Rick desired?
(a) The Pulitzer Prize.
(b) The National Correspondent Award.
(c) The Nobel Prize.
(d) Peabody Award.

6. When did Rick come to realize that Susan was guilty of killing her own children?
(a) Not until the car was found.
(b) When a lead from a girl did not pan out.
(c) When a TV reporter asked why someone would take the car with kids in it.
(d) Margaret told him that she would have died for her children.

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

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

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

10. Why did Rick quit college?
(a) He did not like it.
(b) He can't handle the work load.
(c) He got a job as a reporter.
(d) He did not feel like he is learning enough.

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

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

13. Why did Rick come to dislike Jimmy Carter?
(a) He helps keep Aristide away from Haiti.
(b) He only sent funding to Haiti.
(c) He brokered peace with the despots of Haiti.
(d) He ignored the Amercian soldiers in Haiti.

14. What did Mark build in the woods?
(a) A shack.
(b) A house.
(c) A barn.
(d) A church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Rick NOT want to be buried?

2. What was momma most taken by in the new house?

3. What did Rick's wife tell him that scared him out of the marriage?

4. What was the one gift that Rick wanted more than anything to give his mother?

5. Why do the soldiers of Haiti randomly shoot the poor?

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