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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rick working in the winter of 1964 as Chapter 16 opened?

2. What did Mark build in the woods?

3. Why did Rick come to dislike Jimmy Carter?

4. What became of Sam?

5. What kind of stories did Rick write for the St. Petersburg Times while living in St. Petersburg after the Fellowship?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Rick go home in the Spring of 1994, and what did he write about the whole experience?

2. How did home feel to Rick when he went back for Christmas after returning from Haiti?

3. What did Rick learn in Birmingham as he worked for the paper?

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

5. What was momma's new house like and how did she and everyone else react to it?

6. How did Mark's life affect momma and why?

7. How did Rick fare at Harvard?

8. Why did Rick hate Haiti?

9. What were the details of the stories that Rick told about the bodegas in New York City?

10. What happened when the American soldiers finally came to Haiti?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Rick truly believe about his father and the type of person he once was and the type of person he became? What changed his father? Why did Rick choose to believe this?

Essay Topic 2

According to Rick, what does true poverty do to a person's life from childhood to adulthood?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Rick and his brothers to an average American household. How were the boys the same as others? How were they different? Mention not only material items but how they thought about themselves and how others thought about them.

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