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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 Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Jacksonvill News.

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

3. What did Sam give Rick to take back to Miami with him?
(a) A sack of pine cones.
(b) A hard hat.
(c) A gun.
(d) Deer meat.

4. Why did Margaret stay home from Abigail's funeral?
(a) She could not handle it.
(b) She did not have a dress to wear.
(c) She was afraid to go outside.
(d) She was afraid of churches.

5. After Rick's second trip to Haiti, what promotion did he receive?
(a) International correspondent to Iran.
(b) International correspondent to Turkey.
(c) National correspondent to the West.
(d) National correspondent to the South.

6. What did momma feel about Mark's jail terms?
(a) Fear.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Shame.
(d) Anger.

7. To what does the title "Monsters" refer?
(a) Burning houses.
(b) The Oklahoma city bombers.
(c) Insensitive journalists.
(d) Poverty.

8. Why did the serial diner keep committing the same crime?
(a) He believed it makes him famous.
(b) He wanted to be in jail where he got three meals a day.
(c) He did not want to be alone.
(d) He liked the attention.

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

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

11. How big was the property of momma's new house?
(a) One-third of an acre.
(b) Two acres.
(c) Half an acre.
(d) 1.3 acres.

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

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

14. What became of Sam?
(a) He got injured on a job and never worked again.
(b) He drank himself to death.
(c) He worked hard, married, and had children.
(d) He could not hold onto a job or relationship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sam end up finding his career?

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

3. What did Sam ask from Rick in return for his staying behind in Alabama and Rick going out into the world?

4. Why did Rick come to dislike Jimmy Carter?

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

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