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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 did Rick tell his first girlfriend about his family?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The truth: that they are poor.
(c) A lie: that they are rich.
(d) Not much just that they are like everyone else.

2. What kind of a man is Rick's bother, Sam?
(a) Hard drinker and fighter.
(b) Successful.
(c) Hard worker.
(d) Criminal.

3. What was acceptable practice and what was not in the foothills?
(a) Fighting and drinking.
(b) Beating your childen and missing church.
(c) Not to be able to read; not to be able to dance.
(d) Not to be able to read; not to be able to fight.

4. What did Aunt Mary Jo take the children out for to eat?
(a) Cheeseburgers.
(b) Ice cream sundays.
(c) Foot long hot dogs.
(d) Fried crappie.

5. When sober, how did Bobby Bragg dress for dinner?
(a) In overalls.
(b) With a shirt and tie.
(c) In a clean shirt.
(d) In a full suit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Rick's father teach him that helped him get to his job as a reporter even though many saw him as a loser?

3. What did momma lecture Rick about on the rare occasions that she lectured?

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

5. What did Margaret expect Rick's father to do after she poured his whiskey down the drain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Rick one of the usual suspects after a crime was committed, and how did he react to the whole situation?

4. What was the Korean War story that Charles told to Rick?

5. Why does Rick state more than once that this is not an important book?

6. What did Rick come to realize at the Fraternity Christmas Party, and how did he feel about it?

7. How did false pride become an obstacle for Rick as a teenager?

8. What was the relationship like between the brothers?

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

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

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