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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 react to her trip to New York City?
2. How long had momma lived in the little house?
3. What did momma feel about Mark's jail terms?
4. What story brought Rick back home in 1994?
5. What did Rick say about his mother's attendance at his wedding?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Rick experience when he first returned to the South as the Southern Correspondent for the New York Times?
2. How did Mark's life affect momma and why?
3. What kind of a man did Sam become, and what did Rick think about him?
4. Why did Rick hate Haiti?
5. What were the details of the stories that Rick told about the bodegas in New York City?
6. At the early age of twenty where was Rick writing and what was he writing about?
7. How did home feel to Rick when he went back for Christmas after returning from Haiti?
8. Why didn't Rick remain married to his young bride?
9. At Thanksgiving in the new house, what did Rick and Sam learn?
10. What are some of the stories that Rick experienced in Clearwater?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Choose three of the following chapter titles and explain their significance to the whole book.
1. Under Vulcan's Hammer
2. The Price Tag on Heaven
3. Snow In a Can
4. The Same
5. If You Got to Kill Somebody, Better It Be Family.
6. Perfume on a Hog.
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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