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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 Rick go home for in the year that he was in Haiti?

2. What statue stands in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham?

3. What part of the NY Times staff helped Rick the most when he first got there?

4. What had Mark been doing since his fight with Sam?

5. What was the main question that people asked in Rick's hometown after the incident in 1994 that brought him back home to write a story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Rick view winning the Pulitzer Prize?

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

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

5. At the early age of twenty where was Rick writing and what was he writing about?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

According to Rick, what does true poverty do to a person's life from childhood to adulthood?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the three brothers. How do their differences affect the choices that they make in life?

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