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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. When does Rick NOT want to be buried?
(a) During Nascar.
(b) During football season.
(c) During the rainy season.
(d) Winter.

2. What did Sam wear to his grandmother's funeral?
(a) A shirt and tie.
(b) A formal suit.
(c) A suit jacket.
(d) Blue jeans and clean work boots.

3. What are the cemeteries like in Haiti?
(a) Well kept as life is sacred.
(b) Guarded as no one is allowed in.
(c) So full the caretakers don't know where they put people.
(d) Empty because they burn the bodies.

4. What did Rick say that men did instead of rioting?
(a) They played football.
(b) They listened to loud music.
(c) They danced.
(d) They watched dog fights.

5. Where did Rick travel to the first time he went out of the country to write a story?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Costa Rica.
(d) Desert Storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Louis Bolivar make seven days a week in Haiti?

2. How did Margaret feel about Rick living away from his family most of his life?

3. What did the eighty-seven year old Miss McCarty do with the money she saved over her lifetime?

4. Why did Susan Smith kill her two boys?

5. Why did momma move out of her new house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Margaret's experience traveling to New York City like?

3. Why did Rick question his feelings about being a reporter after the Oklahoma City bombings?

4. Who died at home, and when Rick went to the funeral how did he feel?

5. What did Rick experience when he first returned to the South as the Southern Correspondent for the New York Times?

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

7. What did Rick learn in Birmingham as he worked for the paper?

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

9. What was the riot like that Rick experienced in Miami and how did it affect him?

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

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