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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. Why did Sam become the school's janitor according to Rick?

2. What happened in the country store when Rick went in to buy drinks while working one summer?

3. What did Rick write in the Jacksonville News?

4. What did Rick's grandmother die from?

5. How does Rick describe the area in which his parents were born and raised?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Bragg men talk about on the front porch over whiskey after dinner?

2. 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?

3. How poor was Margaret while raising her small children?

4. When did Rick choose to write this memoir and why?

5. What did Rick experience at the Protestant Church that he attended when he is young?

6. Why was Rick one of the usual suspects after a crime was committed, and how did he react to the whole situation?

7. What male influence did Rick and his brother's have in their lives?

8. What kind of a father did Rick have?

9. What kind of work did the boys do for their Uncle Ed? What did Rick learn from this work? What did Sam learn from this work?

10. What kind of a woman was Rick's grandmother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Thirty years later, Rick went back to see the big house that he once lived in. It was renovated. Rick wanted to scream when he saw it. Explain why he would want to scream at a beautiful house.

Essay Topic 2

How did poverty shape the young lives of the three brothers? How did Margaret get caught up in the poverty cycle, and what did it cost her?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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