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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the one big award that Rick desired?
(a) Peabody Award.
(b) The Pulitzer Prize.
(c) The Nobel Prize.
(d) The National Correspondent Award.

4. What did Rick claim as the highlight of his stay in Tampa?
(a) A serial killer.
(b) The hurricanes.
(c) A story about a chicken named Mopsy.
(d) A surfer named Topsy.

5. How did Rick compare himself to his father?
(a) He said that his father's faults made him a better man.
(b) He said that he is a winner and his father a loser.
(c) He said they are completely different.
(d) He said that in many ways they were the same.

6. Where did Rick travel to the first time he went out of the country to write a story?
(a) Desert Storm.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Costa Rica.
(d) Haiti.

7. What was the main question that people asked in Rick's hometown after the incident in 1994 that brought him back home to write a story?
(a) What do we do next?
(b) Why would God hurt the poor?
(c) Where was God when it happened?
(d) What had the people done wrong to be punished?

8. What had Mark been doing since his fight with Sam?
(a) Working.
(b) Rebuilding his home.
(c) Drinking more.
(d) Living in the old house.

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

10. What did Kovach tell Rick to answer the next time someone asks him where he learned how to write?
(a) The South.
(b) Rick.
(c) Kovach.
(d) God.

11. Why did Susan Smith kill her two boys?
(a) She thought the world is too cruel for them.
(b) To keep a relationship with a rich man.
(c) She did not want to take care of them anymore.
(d) To keep them away from their father.

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

13. What did momma feel about Mark's jail terms?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Shame.

14. 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 call Mark every six months.
(b) For Rick to tell him the stories of where he had been.
(c) For Rick to be home every year for momma's birthday.
(d) For Rick to send money for momma.

15. When did Rick come to realize that Susan was guilty of killing her own children?
(a) When a TV reporter asked why someone would take the car with kids in it.
(b) When a lead from a girl did not pan out.
(c) Not until the car was found.
(d) Margaret told him that she would have died for her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Margaret react to her trip to New York City?

2. Rosario told Rick that he confronted the armed man in his store for what reason?

3. What was momma most taken by in the new house?

4. How did everyone treat Margaret at the acceptance dinner for Rick's award?

5. What did Rick do at the old little house that momma did not?

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