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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. Why was Rick not involved permanently with a woman?
(a) Women found him too harsh.
(b) He did not want to be involved.
(c) He traveled too much.
(d) He never learned what real love is.

2. What did the foreign correspondents eat at the Montana Hotel in Haiti?
(a) Steak.
(b) Vegetarian.
(c) Lobster.
(d) Pasta.

3. What statue stands in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) Bear Bryant.

4. Why do the soldiers of Haiti randomly shoot the poor?
(a) To teach others a lesson.
(b) Because the poor cause riots.
(c) Because the poor are beggars and thieves.
(d) To sell their bodies back to their families.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sam let Rick do when they finally went fishing?

2. When did Rick come to realize that Susan was guilty of killing her own children?

3. What did the eighty-seven year old Miss McCarty do with the money she saved over her lifetime?

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

5. What kind of people did Rick write about from Immokalee, Florida?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the stories that Rick experienced in Clearwater?

2. What gifts did Rick give his mother after he became a successful journalist, and what gift did he want to give his mother? How did he feel about these gifts?

3. What did Rick experience when he first returned to the South as the Southern Correspondent for the New York Times?

4. What was the Susan Smith story that Rick covered?

5. What kind of a man did Sam become, and what did Rick think about him?

6. What did Rick find on his second visit to Haiti?

7. How did Rick feel about the Fellowship to Harvard and why? How did his family feel?

8. What experiences did Rick have in Miami?

9. Who was the Serial Diner, and what did he teach Rick?

10. At the early age of twenty where was Rick writing and what was he writing about?

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