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

2. How did Margaret react to her trip to New York City?
(a) She was too afraid to really experience it.
(b) All she wanted to do was to go home.
(c) She was thrilled and astonished.
(d) She was speechless.

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

4. Why did Margaret stay home from Abigail's funeral?
(a) She was afraid of churches.
(b) She could not handle it.
(c) She did not have a dress to wear.
(d) She was afraid to go outside.

5. Who picked out momma's new house?
(a) Momma, Uncle Ed and Aunt Nita did.
(b) Rick and momma did.
(c) She did.
(d) Rick, Sam and momma did.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in 1991 that Rick got to experience that terrified him deeply?

2. Why was Rick not involved permanently with a woman?

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

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

5. Why did Rick think that he had to take the city reporter's job?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Rick never drink alone?

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

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

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

9. How did Mark's life affect momma and why?

10. 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?

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