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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. How long had momma lived in the little house?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Forty years.

2. What story brought Rick back home in 1994?
(a) A church that was hit by a tornado.
(b) A woman who killed her children.
(c) A gunman who opened fire at a church.
(d) A hurricane that tore down a school.

3. How did Rick try to buy his way into heaven?
(a) By buying his girlfriend a car.
(b) By buying his brother a business.
(c) By buying his momma a pair of dentures.
(d) By buying his ex-wife a baby carriage.

4. What happened in 1991 that Rick got to experience that terrified him deeply?
(a) A young boy getting killed in an accident.
(b) A train wreck with many left dead.
(c) A riot in Miami.
(d) A murder in a grocery store.

5. What does perfume on a hog reference to in the chapter of that title?
(a) Rich and Poor.
(b) The North and the South.
(c) Harvard and Rick.
(d) Educated and Uneducated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What change was made at the NY Times in Rick's first article?

2. What did Sam wear to his grandmother's funeral?

3. What was the one big award that Rick desired?

4. Where did Sam end up finding his career?

5. What did the foreign correspondents eat at the Montana Hotel in Haiti?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the early age of twenty where was Rick writing and what was he writing about?

2. Why didn't Rick remain married to his young bride?

3. What experiences did Rick have in Miami?

4. How did Rick feel about the Fellowship to Harvard and why? How did his family feel?

5. In winter of 1994, where was Rick and what was he writing about?

6. How did Rick fare at Harvard?

7. What kind of a man did Sam become, and what did Rick think about him?

8. What were the details of the stories that Rick told about the bodegas in New York City?

9. What happened when the American soldiers finally came to Haiti?

10. Why did Rick go home in the Spring of 1994, and what did he write about the whole experience?

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