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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 did Louis Bolivar make seven days a week in Haiti?

2. To what does the title "Monsters" refer?

3. What did Rick keep as a reminder of the night he went out on a dangerous story with Sean?

4. What story brought Rick back home in 1994?

5. What are the cemeteries like in Haiti?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Rick learn in Birmingham as he worked for the paper?

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

3. What happened when the American soldiers finally came to Haiti?

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

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

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

7. What was the Susan Smith story that Rick covered?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Explain the quote found on page 98: "But what really kills you on that other side are the people--the smiling, care-free people--who can just as easily look over into your side, and turn their face away." Explain it in terms of the memoir and the truism in life.

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