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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 kind of stories did Rick write for the St. Petersburg Times while living in St. Petersburg after the Fellowship?
(a) Storm stories.
(b) Political stories.
(c) Local stories.
(d) National stories.

2. What overall statement did Rick make about Miami?
(a) "From beauty to trash, Miami has it all."
(b) "Miami is a crazy city."
(c) "Miami is a bad day in paradise."
(d) "You live and die in Miami."

3. Why do the soldiers of Haiti randomly shoot the poor?
(a) To teach others a lesson.
(b) Because the poor cause riots.
(c) To sell their bodies back to their families.
(d) Because the poor are beggars and thieves.

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

5. What did Kovach tell Rick to answer the next time someone asks him where he learned how to write?
(a) The South.
(b) Kovach.
(c) God.
(d) Rick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rick travel to the first time he went out of the country to write a story?

2. What did Sam give Rick to take back to Miami with him?

3. Why did Rick quit college?

4. What did Rick state as the reason that Mark was sober for the funeral?

5. What did Rick say about his mother's attendance at his wedding?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Rick view winning the Pulitzer Prize?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why did Rick never drink alone?

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

10. What was momma's new house like and how did she and everyone else react to it?

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