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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Rick see at church that he stated was one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen?
(a) A soul being saved.
(b) A healing.
(c) A child singing a hymn.
(d) A baptism.

2. What kind of a man is Rick's bother, Sam?
(a) Successful.
(b) Hard drinker and fighter.
(c) Criminal.
(d) Hard worker.

3. What was the reason that Charles whipped his daughter Margaret at the age of thirteen?
(a) Kickin' her sister so hard in bed one night.
(b) Takin' a sip of likker.
(c) Takin' the truck out for a short ride in the fields.
(d) Talkin' back to her mother.

4. What was acceptable practice and what was not in the foothills?
(a) Not to be able to read; not to be able to dance.
(b) Not to be able to read; not to be able to fight.
(c) Beating your childen and missing church.
(d) Fighting and drinking.

5. How did Charles kill the assassin in Korea?
(a) He stabbed him.
(b) He drowned him.
(c) He strangled him.
(d) He shot him.

6. What did Rick's grandmother die from?
(a) Kidney failure.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Heart failure.
(d) Pneumonia.

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

8. What work did Rick begin in junior high?
(a) Working in Uncle Ed's store.
(b) Moving dirt and clearing land.
(c) Hauling trash.
(d) Cleaning stalls.

9. Why did Rick run from the police when he was riding the moped?
(a) He was afraid momma might cry.
(b) He wanted to be able to brag to his brothers.
(c) He thought it is funny to be chased.
(d) He did not want to be arrested.

10. What was Rick's first course in college?
(a) Journalism.
(b) Compostition.
(c) Creative Writing.
(d) Literature.

11. What does Rick say about the book being called a memoir?
(a) He finds it appropriate.
(b) It makes him proud.
(c) He thinks it is wrongly named.
(d) It is too fancy a name for him.

12. Why were the Bragg boys "usual suspects" in the John Sparks case?
(a) Because they were always getting in trouble.
(b) Because the police did not like their father.
(c) Because they were poor and lived close by.
(d) Because they often stuck up for black people.

13. What happened to Mark in 1965 from which his father saved him?
(a) He was hit by a truck.
(b) He was bitten by a rattlesnake.
(c) He fell out of a tree.
(d) He fell in through an icy pond.

14. What did Rick's father teach him that helped him get to his job as a reporter even though many saw him as a loser?
(a) To fight dirty.
(b) To get what you want out of life.
(c) To never take nothin' form nobody.
(d) To work hard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did Rick's grandmother play?

2. What did Margaret mean when she told Sam and Mark that Rick is "travelin'"?

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

4. In what era did Rick's parents grow up?

5. Who went to Charles's funeral?

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