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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. How did Margaret feel about Rick living away from his family most of his life?

2. What did Rick say that men did instead of rioting?

3. What did momma feel about Mark's jail terms?

4. Why did Susan Smith kill her two boys?

5. What did Margaret do at the buffet in New York City that both surprised and amused Rick?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did momma move out of the new house?

2. What comparisons did Rick make between himself and his father? How did he feel about the comparisons?

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

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

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

6. In winter of 1994, where was Rick and what was he writing about?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the school system create Sam's life for him? Was this fair? What choices did Sam have? Do children know and understand their choices? Did Sam?

Essay Topic 2

What is a widow's mite, and why does Rick Bragg use it as a title for the first section of the book?

Essay Topic 3

What are Rick's views about religion? Where do they come from? How do they affect him emotionally? What does he understand that he is missing?

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