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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Rick direct Chapter 40 to as he talked about momma's new house?
(a) Sam.
(b) His father.
(c) Mark.
(d) Charlie, his mother's father.

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

3. What was the one gift that Rick wanted more than anything to give his mother?
(a) A new wardrobe.
(b) A car.
(c) A vacation.
(d) A house.

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

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

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

7. What did Sam wear to his grandmother's funeral?
(a) A shirt and tie.
(b) A suit jacket.
(c) A formal suit.
(d) Blue jeans and clean work boots.

8. What story did Rick write about in Clearwater that marked him forever?
(a) About poachers.
(b) About Siamese twins.
(c) About a woman who dies twenty years after her attack.
(d) About a man who married his daughter.

9. What was momma most taken by in the new house?
(a) The hot running water.
(b) The doorbell.
(c) The thermostat.
(d) The dishwasher.

10. Where did Rick travel to the first time he went out of the country to write a story?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Costa Rica.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Desert Storm.

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

12. What kind of stories did Rick write for the St. Petersburg Times while living in St. Petersburg after the Fellowship?
(a) Political stories.
(b) Local stories.
(c) National stories.
(d) Storm stories.

13. How did everyone treat Margaret at the acceptance dinner for Rick's award?
(a) With kid gloves.
(b) They paid her homage for the son that she raised.
(c) Mostly, they stayed away.
(d) They were loud and overwhelming.

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

15. Why did Margaret hang Rick's awards on her walls?
(a) To prove to others that her son was a good boy.
(b) She was vain.
(c) It represented validation.
(d) To convince herself that it is real.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Rick not involved permanently with a woman?

2. What kind of a leader was Papa Doc to Haiti?

3. Rosario told Rick that he confronted the armed man in his store for what reason?

4. When did Rick come to realize that Susan was guilty of killing her own children?

5. What did Rick say about his mother's attendance at his wedding?

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