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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who picked out momma's new house?
(a) She did.
(b) Momma, Uncle Ed and Aunt Nita did.
(c) Rick, Sam and momma did.
(d) Rick and momma did.

2. What did Margaret worry about after Rick won his award?
(a) Rick getting rougher writing assignments.
(b) Having him stay away for longer periods of time.
(c) People noticing her more.
(d) Having her picture taken.

3. Why was Rick so nervous about his Fellowship interview?
(a) It was a test to him to see if he belonged in educated society.
(b) He wanted it more than anything he had ever wanted.
(c) His editor told him he was a shoe in.
(d) His friends told him he was not cut out for it.

4. What did Rick tell him momma that he wrote about?
(a) Gangs in the streets of various cities around the world.
(b) Happy stories.
(c) Sports.
(d) Animals.

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

6. What happened to Mark that kept Margaret shaking for days?
(a) He went on a drinking binge and disappears.
(b) He was arrested for beating someone in a bar.
(c) He went into a rage and burns his house down.
(d) His house burned down, and she didn't know if he was in it.

7. Who did Rick direct Chapter 40 to as he talked about momma's new house?
(a) Sam.
(b) His father.
(c) Charlie, his mother's father.
(d) Mark.

8. What did Sam let Rick do when they finally went fishing?
(a) Tell momma Rick caught the fish.
(b) Bait the line.
(c) Cook the fish.
(d) Reel in the fish Sam caught.

9. What was the wall in Brooklyn that Rick wrote about?
(a) A tribute to the leaders of the gangs.
(b) A tribute to those killed in the streets there.
(c) A memorial to soldiers.
(d) A division between races.

10. When does Rick NOT want to be buried?
(a) Winter.
(b) During Nascar.
(c) During football season.
(d) During the rainy season.

11. What was different about Thanksgiving in the new house?
(a) Momma had guests.
(b) Rick got his own bed.
(c) Mark came sober.
(d) They all got to sit together in one room.

12. What did Sam ask from Rick in return for his staying behind in Alabama and Rick going out into the world?
(a) For Rick to send money for momma.
(b) For Rick to be home every year for momma's birthday.
(c) For Rick to call Mark every six months.
(d) For Rick to tell him the stories of where he had been.

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

14. What did Rick go home for in the year that he was in Haiti?
(a) Grandma's death.
(b) The birth of Sam's son.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Christmas.

15. What story brought Rick back home in 1994?
(a) A woman who killed her children.
(b) A hurricane that tore down a school.
(c) A church that was hit by a tornado.
(d) A gunman who opened fire at a church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became of Sam?

2. Why didn't Rick take the job he wanted at the St. Petersburg Times?

3. How big was the property of momma's new house?

4. What did Sam wear to his grandmother's funeral?

5. What did Margaret do at the buffet in New York City that both surprised and amused Rick?

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