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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?
(a) By telling him that he could live in the old van down by the river.
(b) By giving him all the money she had.
(c) By telling him that the children would be better off without him.
(d) By calling the police and threatening to have him recommitted.

2. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?
(a) He did not know how he could make enough money as a preacher in order to support his large family.
(b) He felt that God had not officially or personally called him to preach.
(c) He did not think his growing congregation was devoted enough to their faith.
(d) He wanted to move the family to a different county.

3. When Janisse's family said grace before each meal, each child in the family was required to say something. What were they required by Frank to say?
(a) A memorized Bible verse.
(b) The Lord's Prayer in its entirety.
(c) Something for which each child is thankful.
(d) An expression of love toward God.

4. At the hands of the tree farmers, the land was laid bare. What simile does Janisse use to describe its bare state?
(a) Bare as a vulture's pate.
(b) Bare as a possum's tail.
(c) Bare as a blank sheet of paper.
(d) Bare as a sand dune.

5. Janisse describes her area of southern Georgia as lying below the fall line. What does she say that fall line serves to separate from one another?
(a) The Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.
(b) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.
(c) The Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
(d) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?

2. For what reason did Frank throw out the family's television set when Janisse's little sister Kay was a baby?

3. What did Charlie hope to accomplish by placing old shoes beneath plants?

4. What event did Frank attend on the day he had his first major nervous breakdown during Janisse's childhood?

5. What chore done before a thunderstorm does Janisse use in the Introduction as a metaphor for the Georgian people seeing everything coming before it happens?

(see the answer key)

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