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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 reason did grandpa Charlie have for shooting a neighbor woman?
(a) She came at him with a knife.
(b) She lied about his stealing.
(c) She hit one of his children.
(d) She told the police he made likker.

2. How did Sam torture Rick in the outhouse?
(a) He locked him in with a tomcat.
(b) He would leave him there alone in the middle of the night.
(c) He would make him close the door to darkness.
(d) He told him the hole will swallow him up.

3. What did NOT change in Rick's parents' world as the times change?
(a) The clothing.
(b) The scenery.
(c) The religion.
(d) The music.

4. What did momma lecture Rick about on the rare occasions that she lectured?
(a) Envy.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Religion.
(d) False pride.

5. What happened to Mark in 1965 from which his father saved him?
(a) He was bitten by a rattlesnake.
(b) He fell in through an icy pond.
(c) He was hit by a truck.
(d) He fell out of a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rick find himself wishing for at the funeral home?

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

3. What was Rick's mother's response when he asked her if he could write the book?

4. Who drove Margaret to the hospital when she gave birth to Rick?

5. What made Rick finally write the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the relationship like between the brothers?

2. What story did Rick tell about his cowboy boots?

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

4. What was the main reason for Rick writing this memoir?

5. What does Rick choose to believe about his father's neglect and abuse of his family?

6. What was the area like and what were the people like where Rick and his parents grew up?

7. What happened when Rick went to visit his father for the last time?

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

9. What did the poor black boy bring to Rick's family, and what does Rick think about it now that he is an older man?

10. What kind of a father did Rick have?

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