2. How did Rick compare himself to his father?
(a) He said that he is a winner and his father a loser.
(b) He said they are completely different.
(c) He said that in many ways they were the same.
(d) He said that his father's faults made him a better man.

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

4. What happened to Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1990?
(a) He lost the election by poplular vote.
(b) He went into exile.
(c) He was elected for the second time.
(d) He was assassinated.

5. 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.

6. What kind of questions did Rick often find himself answering to the students at Harvard?
(a) Questions about the South.
(b) Questions about his stories.
(c) Questions about racism.
(d) Questions about Haiti.

7. What did Rick do at the old little house that momma did not?
(a) He walked it one more time.
(b) He cried when she leaves it.
(c) He rejoiced that they are gone from it forever.
(d) He spit on the ground.

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

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

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

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) Why would God hurt the poor?
(b) What do we do next?
(c) What had the people done wrong to be punished?
(d) Where was God when it happened?

12. 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.

13. Why did Rick think that he had to take the city reporter's job?
(a) He had a wife.
(b) He had a fancy car payment.
(c) His mother needed the money.
(d) He had to show up the editor that insulted him.

14. How did Rick try to buy his way into heaven?
(a) By buying his girlfriend a car.
(b) By buying his ex-wife a baby carriage.
(c) By buying his momma a pair of dentures.
(d) By buying his brother a business.

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