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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 the mothers allow the children to eat in front of the TV.
(c) A family outing.
(d) When father throws the food in anger.

2. What bet did Uncle Jimbo win for twenty dollars?
(a) He painted a naked lady on Gracie's car.
(b) He bet Uncle Bill's car will start.
(c) He ate a bologna sandwich while sitting on a dead donkey.
(d) He stole one of grandpa's jugs of whiskey without getting caught.

3. Why did Sam become the school's janitor according to Rick?
(a) Because he never learned to read.
(b) Because he never wanted to be anything else.
(c) Because they never taught him that he had other opportunities.
(d) Because he was not smart enough to do anything else.

4. Why was Rick rushed to the hospital as a young boy?
(a) He sucked a plastic berry up his nose.
(b) He punched his brother and broke his hand.
(c) He fell into the hole in the outhouse and broke his arm.
(d) He fell out of a tree and broke his leg.

5. What payment was most likely used for the doctor who helped give birth to Rick's mother?
(a) Money.
(b) Bumdrum's homemade likker.
(c) Ham.
(d) Bumdrum's live chickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rick Bragg mostly write about as a reporter?

2. What did Sam and Rick do to their father on the night he attempted to hit Rick?

3. What did the poor black family down the road do for Rick's family?

4. How long did Rick have the 1969 convertible?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of a father did Rick have?

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

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

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

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

6. Why didn't Margaret find another man to continue her life with as time passed and Charles did not return?

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

8. What was the relationship like between the brothers?

9. Why does Rick say that anyone could write this book? Is that true?

10. What male influence did Rick and his brother's have in their lives?

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