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

2. Where did Sam end up finding his career?
(a) At a cottonmill.
(b) At a mechanics shop.
(c) At a bar.
(d) At a constuction sight.

3. What did Rick state as the reason that Mark was sober for the funeral?
(a) Mark didn't want his family to see him drunk.
(b) Mark was trying to get sober for his mother.
(c) Mark did it out of respect for his grandmother.
(d) Mark grieved like good men do.

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

5. What did Rick go home for in the year that he was in Haiti?
(a) Christmas.
(b) The birth of Sam's son.
(c) Grandma's death.
(d) Thanksgiving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rick say that men did instead of rioting?

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

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

4. When does Rick NOT want to be buried?

5. What story did Rick write about in Clearwater that marked him forever?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Rick view winning the Pulitzer Prize?

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

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

5. What experiences did Rick have in Miami?

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

7. How did home feel to Rick when he went back for Christmas after returning from Haiti?

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

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

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

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