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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Lies to My Mother, Chapters 16-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Margaret bury Rick's muddy sneakers?
(a) She wanted to protect him from the police.
(b) She did not want to clean them.
(c) She thought John Sparks used them.
(d) She believed he may be involved in the Sparks case.

2. What did Rick never do alone?
(a) Eat jellybeans.
(b) Go out to eat.
(c) Drink.
(d) Go to the movies.

3. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?
(a) Crow.
(b) Pidgeon.
(c) Buzzard.
(d) Eel.

4. What did Rick find himself wishing for at the funeral home?
(a) A way to spend more time with his mother.
(b) God.
(c) Another day with his grandmother.
(d) Heaven.

5. What is the story of the widow's mite?
(a) A woman who is infested with bugs.
(b) A widowed woman who takes in poor children.
(c) A woman who shuns the church because her husband dies.
(d) A poor woman who gave to the temple and God recognized the gift.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reason that Charles whipped his daughter Margaret at the age of thirteen?

2. What did momma lecture Rick about on the rare occasions that she lectured?

3. What did Rick and Uncle Ed both acknowledge early on about Rick's future?

4. What did the box contain that Rick's father gave to him on his last visit?

5. When sober, how did Bobby Bragg dress for dinner?

(see the answer key)

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