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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 became of Sam?
(a) He got injured on a job and never worked again.
(b) He drank himself to death.
(c) He worked hard, married, and had children.
(d) He could not hold onto a job or relationship.

2. What did the woman tell Rick who he met at a seminar at the end of the book?
(a) That material items cannot fulfill dreams.
(b) That from him she learned not to be ashamed of where she came from.
(c) That she should not put on hold the nice things in life.
(d) That one must forget the past and move on.

3. What did the eighty-seven year old Miss McCarty do with the money she saved over her lifetime?
(a) Gave it to the local police to protect the poor.
(b) Gave it to the Red Cross to help the poor.
(c) Gave it to the church to feed the poor.
(d) Gave it to the local university for scholarships for the poor.

4. How long did Rick work for the L.A. Times?
(a) One month.
(b) One winter.
(c) One week.
(d) One year.

5. What happened to Mark that kept Margaret shaking for days?
(a) He went into a rage and burns his house down.
(b) He went on a drinking binge and disappears.
(c) He was arrested for beating someone in a bar.
(d) His house burned down, and she didn't know if he was in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sam feel about Rick going off to his Fellowship?

2. How old was Rick when he married?

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

4. What was different about Thanksgiving in the new house?

5. What did Mark build in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. At Thanksgiving in the new house, what did Rick and Sam learn?

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

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

4. How did Rick view winning the Pulitzer Prize?

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

6. How did Rick fare at Harvard?

7. What was the Susan Smith story that Rick covered?

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

9. Who was the Serial Diner, and what did he teach Rick?

10. What are some of the stories that Rick experienced in Clearwater?

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