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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was "Dinner on the Ground"?
(a) A church picnic.
(b) When father throws the food in anger.
(c) A family outing.
(d) When the mothers allow the children to eat in front of the TV.

2. What was the house like that Rick's father brought them to when Rick was six years old?
(a) Small, but in good shape.
(b) Big but decrepit.
(c) A mansion.
(d) Just big enough for all of them.

3. Who came to the city auditorium to talk to the white people of the county?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Albert Brewer.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

4. How long after quitting high school did Margaret get her GED?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Twenty-five years.

5. What did Margaret expect Rick's father to do after she poured his whiskey down the drain?
(a) Find more likker.
(b) Hit her.
(c) Stop drinking.
(d) Leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Rick view his time in high school?

2. When sober, how did Bobby Bragg dress for dinner?

3. How long did Rick put off writing his book?

4. What did Charlie tell Margaret about going back to her husband when she came home for the second time?

5. Why was Rick rushed to the hospital as a young boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rick feel about his high school years as he looked back on them?

2. What kind of work did the boys do for their Uncle Ed? What did Rick learn from this work? What did Sam learn from this work?

3. What did Rick experience at the Protestant Church that he attended when he is young?

4. What were the times like when Rick grew up? Where was he born? When?

5. What kind of an extended family does Rick have?

6. How poor was Margaret while raising her small children?

7. When did Rick choose to write this memoir and why?

8. What kind of a woman was Rick's grandmother?

9. Why does Rick miss his grandmother's death?

10. Why did the boys feel so out of place in their new home that their father moved them to when Rick was six?

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