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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was different about Thanksgiving in the new house?
(a) They all got to sit together in one room.
(b) Rick got his own bed.
(c) Mark came sober.
(d) Momma had guests.

2. What storm stopped Rick from leaving for his Fellowship on the day he was supposed to?
(a) Hurricane Francis.
(b) Hurricane Andrew.
(c) Hurricane Charlie.
(d) Hurricane Katrina.

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

4. 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.

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

6. What did the woman tell Rick who he met at a seminar at the end of the book?
(a) That she should not put on hold the nice things in life.
(b) That from him she learned not to be ashamed of where she came from.
(c) That material items cannot fulfill dreams.
(d) That one must forget the past and move on.

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

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

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

10. Why was Rick not involved permanently with a woman?
(a) He traveled too much.
(b) He never learned what real love is.
(c) Women found him too harsh.
(d) He did not want to be involved.

11. Why was Rick so nervous about his Fellowship interview?
(a) His editor told him he was a shoe in.
(b) He wanted it more than anything he had ever wanted.
(c) It was a test to him to see if he belonged in educated society.
(d) His friends told him he was not cut out for it.

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

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

14. Where was Rick working in the winter of 1964 as Chapter 16 opened?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Jacksonvill News.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Boston Herald.

15. What did Sam ask from Rick in return for his staying behind in Alabama and Rick going out into the world?
(a) For Rick to tell him the stories of where he had been.
(b) For Rick to be home every year for momma's birthday.
(c) For Rick to call Mark every six months.
(d) For Rick to send money for momma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the wall in Brooklyn that Rick wrote about?

2. What was Margaret's response when Rick told her that he got the Fellowship?

3. Where did Rick travel to the first time he went out of the country to write a story?

4. What did Mark build in the woods?

5. Why did Rick think that he had to take the city reporter's job?

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