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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What crime did John Sparks commit?
2. When sober, how did Bobby Bragg dress for dinner?
3. What did Grandma Ab do the last time her grandchildren drove away with their father and mother?
4. What made Rick finally write the book?
5. What did Rick write in the Jacksonville News?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the times like when Rick grew up? Where was he born? When?
2. How did false pride become an obstacle for Rick as a teenager?
3. How did Rick feel about his high school years as he looked back on them?
4. What happened when Rick went to visit his father for the last time?
5. Why didn't Margaret find another man to continue her life with as time passed and Charles did not return?
6. What kind of an extended family does Rick have?
7. What did the poor black boy bring to Rick's family, and what does Rick think about it now that he is an older man?
8. What did Rick experience at the Protestant Church that he attended when he is young?
9. What did Rick come to realize at the Fraternity Christmas Party, and how did he feel about it?
10. What was Margaret's family like growing up?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the historical implications of the book. How does the time and place create the lives and the choices of the people in the book?
Essay Topic 2
Compare Rick and his brothers to an average American household. How were the boys the same as others? How were they different? Mention not only material items but how they thought about themselves and how others thought about them.
Essay Topic 3
Growing up, what was Rick taught to believe about black people? What did he learn as a child for himself about them? What happened with the experience after the black boy brought Rick's family food?
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