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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 did the young South Carolina woman say happened to her two boys?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rick feel about the Fellowship to Harvard and why? How did his family feel?

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

3. How did Rick fare at Harvard?

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

5. What did Rick find on his second visit to Haiti?

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

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

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

9. Why did Rick hate Haiti?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the historical implications of the book. How does the time and place create the lives and the choices of the people in the book?

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

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.

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