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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 Margaret worry about after Rick won his award?

2. What happened to Mark that kept Margaret shaking for days?

3. What did Rick say about his mother's attendance at his wedding?

4. What did Rick go home for in the year that he was in Haiti?

5. Why did Rick come to dislike Jimmy Carter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In winter of 1994, where was Rick and what was he writing about?

3. What are some of the stories that Rick experienced in Clearwater?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

What is a widow's mite, and why does Rick Bragg use it as a title for the first section of the book?

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