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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 let Rick do when they finally went fishing?

2. What did Rick's wife tell him that scared him out of the marriage?

3. What did Louis Bolivar make seven days a week in Haiti?

4. Why did Rick lose his job at the Birmingham paper?

5. How big was the property of momma's new house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Rick never drink alone?

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

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

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. What was Margaret's experience traveling to New York City like?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Margaret had some small pictures of Charles which Rick looked at now and again as a boy. At one point he said, "It hurts my eyes to look at them for long." Explain the quote in regard to Rick's relationship to his father.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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