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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Same Kind of Different as Me is what type of book?
(a) Historical fiction.
(b) Romantic fiction.
(c) Non-fiction biography.
(d) Non-fiction autobiography.

2. What name did Deborah and Ron mistakenly call Denver?
(a) Duncan.
(b) Dayton.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Devore.

3. Where did Ron endure his teacher's cruel punishment?
(a) At his teacher's home.
(b) In the principal's office.
(c) On the stage of the school auditorium.
(d) On the playground.

4. What sort of place did Tim Taylor run, welcoming the needy to free events there?
(a) A playhouse.
(b) A smoky jazz and blues lounge.
(c) A comedy club.
(d) A soup kitchen.

5. During his time working as a sharecropper picking cotton, what did Denver receive instead of a paycheck?
(a) Four square meals a day at the farmhouse kitchen table.
(b) A new bike every Christmas.
(c) Room and board in the Man's house.
(d) A shack and supplies on which he made payments to the Man.

6. What punishment did Ron's teacher inflict on him for his honest mistake in second grade?
(a) She pulled down his pants and spanked him in front of his classmates.
(b) She forced him to read a letter of apology in front of the entire class.
(c) She made him press his nose against the wall.
(d) She took away his desk and made him sit on the floor for the entire year.

7. How soon after arriving in Fort Worth did Denver meet Deborah?
(a) Immediately, because she met him at the train station.
(b) Many months.
(c) Many years.
(d) Only a few hours.

8. Why did Ron decide to volunteer his time to help the needy?
(a) Denver invited him to join him.
(b) He wanted to be a good husband.
(c) He felt that God had called him to serve.
(d) He wanted to set a good example for his wife.

9. What valuable objects were in Ron's possession on the private jet?
(a) $100,000 in cash and two bars of gold.
(b) Three Georgia O'Keefe paintings.
(c) Two rare Picasso sculptures.
(d) Three Monet landscapes.

10. What is the term used to describe the farm owned by Ron's family?
(a) Sharecropper.
(b) Cottongain.
(c) Cottonshare.
(d) Blackland.

11. What part of Ron's body ached as he endured the humiliating punishment from his teacher?
(a) His legs.
(b) His hands.
(c) His nose.
(d) His neck.

12. To what danger did the family pet alert Li'l Buddy?
(a) A fire.
(b) A car that had crashed through the kitchen.
(c) Leaking gas.
(d) An explosion in the kitchen.

13. Denver recalled stories from his childhood about black men being fed to a gator for doing what?
(a) Stealing cotton and selling it in town.
(b) Looking at a white woman.
(c) Helping a stranded white woman with car trouble.
(d) Robbing the Man.

14. During what era did Ron attend school and receive an unjust punishment for his honest mistake?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1940s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1980s.

15. What was in the Dixie cup that Ron handed to his teacher?
(a) His urine.
(b) Pencil shavings.
(c) Worms from the schoolyard.
(d) Nails.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Don Shisler and Pam?

2. What thoughts about the homeless did Ron have as he flew in a private jet over Fort Worth and looked down on the city?

3. Who did Big Mama and PawPaw raise as their own?

4. What affliction affected Ron's father when Ron was a child?

5. When Ron sold two valuable paintings in the mid-1970s, where did he and his wife go to socialize with multimillionaire clients for a month?

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