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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was Rick's mother's response when he asked her if he could write the book?
(a) " Why would you want to tell our story?"
(b) "Write it; I sat quiet for fifty years."
(c) "Whatever you think best, son."
(d) "Tell the truth in it, son."
2. How would Bobby Bragg fix his hip when it went out on him?
(a) He would go to the doctor.
(b) He would have his sons pull his leg.
(c) His wife would pull his leg until it popped back in.
(d) He would drink a lot of whiskey.
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' the truck out for a short ride in the fields.
(c) Talkin' back to her mother.
(d) Takin' a sip of likker.
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) Beating your childen and missing church.
(c) Fighting and drinking.
(d) Not to be able to read; not to be able to fight.
5. What kind of a man is Rick's brother, Mark?
(a) Hard drinker and fighter.
(b) Hard worker.
(c) Family man.
(d) Criminal.
6. Why did Rick run from the police when he was riding the moped?
(a) He thought it is funny to be chased.
(b) He was afraid momma might cry.
(c) He wanted to be able to brag to his brothers.
(d) He did not want to be arrested.
7. What does Rick say about the book being called a memoir?
(a) He finds it appropriate.
(b) It is too fancy a name for him.
(c) It makes him proud.
(d) He thinks it is wrongly named.
8. What school did Rick attend at the age of 33?
(a) Yale.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Harvard.
9. What does Rick hope his story will accomplish?
(a) Heal his soul.
(b) Get at great truths.
(c) Make the dead dance with the living.
(d) To bring his family closer together.
10. What was Rick's first course in college?
(a) Literature.
(b) Compostition.
(c) Journalism.
(d) Creative Writing.
11. What did the redbird do that makes Rick question life?
(a) It threw its baby from the nest.
(b) It hurled itself into a pool.
(c) It flew into a glass door.
(d) It attacked its own reflection.
12. When did Rick first meet his father?
(a) When he was ten.
(b) When he was fifteen.
(c) When he was five.
(d) When he was two.
13. What did momma lecture Rick about on the rare occasions that she lectured?
(a) Religion.
(b) False pride.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Envy.
14. What kind of a man is Rick's bother, Sam?
(a) Successful.
(b) Criminal.
(c) Hard worker.
(d) Hard drinker and fighter.
15. What work did Rick begin in junior high?
(a) Hauling trash.
(b) Working in Uncle Ed's store.
(c) Moving dirt and clearing land.
(d) Cleaning stalls.
Short Answer Questions
1. What war was Rick's father in?
2. How old was Charles when he died?
3. How did Rick view his time in high school?
4. Who drove Margaret to the hospital when she gave birth to Rick?
5. Who went to Charles's funeral?
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