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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. Why did the serial diner keep committing the same crime?
(a) He liked the attention.
(b) He wanted to be in jail where he got three meals a day.
(c) He did not want to be alone.
(d) He believed it makes him famous.

2. What kind of questions did Rick often find himself answering to the students at Harvard?
(a) Questions about the South.
(b) Questions about Haiti.
(c) Questions about his stories.
(d) Questions about racism.

3. Why did Rick come to dislike Jimmy Carter?
(a) He brokered peace with the despots of Haiti.
(b) He helps keep Aristide away from Haiti.
(c) He ignored the Amercian soldiers in Haiti.
(d) He only sent funding to Haiti.

4. When Rick went home in 1988, how long had it been since he spent the holidays there?
(a) Five years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Ten years.

5. What did Rick do at the old little house that momma did not?
(a) He cried when she leaves it.
(b) He rejoiced that they are gone from it forever.
(c) He spit on the ground.
(d) He walked it one more time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main question that people asked in Rick's hometown after the incident in 1994 that brought him back home to write a story?

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

3. How old was Rick when he married?

4. What did the woman tell Rick who he met at a seminar at the end of the book?

5. Why was Rick so nervous about his Fellowship interview?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What experiences did Rick have in Miami?

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

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

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

7. What did Rick find on his second visit to Haiti?

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

9. What gifts did Rick give his mother after he became a successful journalist, and what gift did he want to give his mother? How did he feel about these gifts?

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

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