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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of a man is Rick's brother, Mark?
(a) Criminal.
(b) Hard worker.
(c) Hard drinker and fighter.
(d) Family man.

2. In what era did Rick's parents grow up?
(a) The 60s and 70s.
(b) The 50s and 60s.
(c) The 40s and 50s.
(d) The 20s and 30s.

3. What did the box contain that Rick's father gave to him on his last visit?
(a) Ammunition.
(b) Dirty books.
(c) Classical literature.
(d) Car magazines.

4. What did Rick tell his first girlfriend about his family?
(a) A lie: that they are rich.
(b) The truth: that they are poor.
(c) Not much just that they are like everyone else.
(d) Nothing.

5. What did Margaret mean when she told Sam and Mark that Rick is "travelin'"?
(a) He was daydreaming.
(b) He was reading another book.
(c) He was taking a walk.
(d) He was having a seizure.

6. What is the last line of the Prologue?
(a) "I forgive you, Papa."
(b) "Do you hear me, grandma?"
(c) "God help me, Momma, if I am clumsy."
(d) "Forgive me Momma."

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

8. Who came to the city auditorium to talk to the white people of the county?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Albert Brewer.

9. Why did Sam become the school's janitor according to Rick?
(a) Because he never learned to read.
(b) Because they never taught him that he had other opportunities.
(c) Because he was not smart enough to do anything else.
(d) Because he never wanted to be anything else.

10. What famous singer did grandma tell Rick that she met before he died?
(a) Frank Sinatra.
(b) Hank Williams.
(c) Perry Como.
(d) Johnny Cash.

11. What sickness killed Rick's father?
(a) Cirrhosis.
(b) Tuburculosis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Hepititus.

12. Why did Rick tell his family's story?
(a) To forgive his father.
(b) To make his brothers feel better.
(c) To make himself feel better.
(d) To record his mother's sacrifices.

13. What happened to the letters Margaret received from Charles while he was in Korea?
(a) She gave them to Rick when he gets older.
(b) She shredded them.
(c) They were burned.
(d) He threw them away one night.

14. What did Rick's mother do without so that her boys could have school clothes?
(a) New shoes.
(b) Sweets.
(c) A new dress.
(d) A nice house.

15. What did Rick and Uncle Ed both acknowledge early on about Rick's future?
(a) That he will find a good job someday.
(b) That he will end up just like his father.
(c) That he will leave home and never return.
(d) That he will be stuck working hard for no money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What memory does Rick recall of his grandmother and himself when he was five?

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

3. What does Rick say about this book?

4. What did the redbird do that makes Rick question life?

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

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