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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Lies to My Mother, Chapters 25-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What payment was most likely used for the doctor who helped give birth to Rick's mother?
(a) Bumdrum's homemade likker.
(b) Money.
(c) Bumdrum's live chickens.
(d) Ham.

2. What did the foreign correspondents eat at the Montana Hotel in Haiti?
(a) Lobster.
(b) Steak.
(c) Vegetarian.
(d) Pasta.

3. In general, how did Rick Bragg feel about religion as he always had?
(a) He is apathetic about it.
(b) He is fervent about it.
(c) He believes it is detrimental.
(d) He never found the joy of it as he had seen others have.

4. How does Rick describe the area in which his parents were born and raised?
(a) The poor Old South.
(b) Bible country.
(c) The land of poor churches.
(d) The monied South.

5. What change was made at the NY Times in Rick's first article?
(a) A comma.
(b) Most of the story.
(c) Much of the grammar.
(d) The headline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of people did Rick write about from Immokalee, Florida?

2. Why were the Bragg boys "usual suspects" in the John Sparks case?

3. When did the boys stop fighting with each other?

4. What did NOT change in Rick's parents' world as the times change?

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

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