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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) A lie: that they are rich.
(b) The truth: that they are poor.
(c) Not much just that they are like everyone else.
(d) Nothing.

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

3. In general, how did Rick Bragg feel about religion as he always had?
(a) He is fervent about it.
(b) He is apathetic about it.
(c) He believes it is detrimental.
(d) He never found the joy of it as he had seen others have.

4. 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 fight.
(d) Not to be able to read; not to be able to dance.

5. What kind of a man is Rick's brother, Mark?
(a) Hard worker.
(b) Hard drinker and fighter.
(c) Criminal.
(d) Family man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did Rick's grandmother play?

2. Where did Margaret get her religion from?

3. What was Margaret's first real toy?

4. Why were the Bragg boys "usual suspects" in the John Sparks case?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What did the Bragg men talk about on the front porch over whiskey after dinner?

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

10. What were some of the stories that Rick would tell in the book that he had covered as a reporter?

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