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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Margaret get her religion from?
(a) A pastor comes to visit her every Sunday.
(b) Church.
(c) TV preachers.
(d) Reading The Bible.

2. What reason did grandpa Charlie have for shooting a neighbor woman?
(a) She hit one of his children.
(b) She lied about his stealing.
(c) She came at him with a knife.
(d) She told the police he made likker.

3. How did Rick view his time in high school?
(a) He wasted it.
(b) He worked too hard at his job to take time for it.
(c) He worked hard at it.
(d) He learned a lot from it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sam torture Rick in the outhouse?

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

3. What did Aunt Gracie tell the children that the chicken was that was cooking?

4. What did Charlie tell Margaret about going back to her husband when she came home for the second time?

5. What did Sam and Rick do to their father on the night he attempted to hit Rick?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did false pride become an obstacle for Rick as a teenager?

2. How poor was Margaret while raising her small children?

3. What were the times like when Rick grew up? Where was he born? When?

4. What was the main reason for Rick writing this memoir?

5. What did the poor black boy bring to Rick's family, and what does Rick think about it now that he is an older man?

6. When did Rick choose to write this memoir and why?

7. Why did the boys feel so out of place in their new home that their father moved them to when Rick was six?

8. What does Rick choose to believe about his father's neglect and abuse of his family?

9. What did Rick experience at the Protestant Church that he attended when he is young?

10. What kind of an extended family does Rick have?

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