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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 Sam ask from Rick in return for his staying behind in Alabama and Rick going out into the world?

2. What happened to Rick when he was out on the boat in the Everglades?

3. What did Sam give Rick to take back to Miami with him?

4. What did the eighty-seven year old Miss McCarty do with the money she saved over her lifetime?

5. What storm stopped Rick from leaving for his Fellowship on the day he was supposed to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Rick hate Haiti?

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

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

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

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

9. What were the details of the stories that Rick told about the bodegas in New York City?

10. Why did Rick never drink alone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What did Rick truly believe about his father and the type of person he once was and the type of person he became? What changed his father? Why did Rick choose to believe this?

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