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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does perfume on a hog reference to in the chapter of that title?
(a) Rich and Poor.
(b) Harvard and Rick.
(c) The North and the South.
(d) Educated and Uneducated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Rick tell him momma that he wrote about?
(a) Happy stories.
(b) Animals.
(c) Sports.
(d) Gangs in the streets of various cities around the world.

11. When Rick went home in 1988, how long had it been since he spent the holidays there?
(a) Three years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Seven years.

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

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

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

15. What are the cemeteries like in Haiti?
(a) Empty because they burn the bodies.
(b) Guarded as no one is allowed in.
(c) Well kept as life is sacred.
(d) So full the caretakers don't know where they put people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story did Rick write about in Clearwater that marked him forever?

2. What did Rick keep as a reminder of the night he went out on a dangerous story with Sean?

3. What happened to Rick when he was out on the boat in the Everglades?

4. What did Margaret worry about after Rick won his award?

5. What did Rick compare time lost to?

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