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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(b) Under a grapevine.
(c) In a big cabbage in the garden.
(d) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.

2. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?
(a) He was a local doctor and his old ambulance was in the family junkyard.
(b) He was a local veterinarian and his van was in the family junkyard.
(c) He was a local bank robber and his old car was in the family junkyard.
(d) He was a local mortician and his hearse was in the family junkyard.

3. Though the preacher at first refused to marry Lee Ada and Frank, he finally agreed, providing they agree to one condition. What was that one condition?
(a) They will name their firstborn child after the preacher.
(b) They will not tell their parents who officiated the ceremony.
(c) They will refrain from having children for one full year.
(d) They will get married outside rather than in the church.

4. What was the subject of Janisse's recurring daydream she had during church services?
(a) Running off to join the circus.
(b) Living in the forest as a hermit.
(c) Being a bank robber.
(d) Having a very tiny real baby of her own.

5. How old was Lee Ada when she married Frank?
(a) 25.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?

2. Where did Janisse get pants to wear on the rafting trip, her very first time wearing pants due to her family's religious convictions?

3. What did Lee Ada do for a time after graduating from high school?

4. What book did Janisse read that caused her to look closely at an anthill in the junkyard and to simply the furnishings in her room?

5. What was the name of the Rays' neighbor who survived a train accident in 1955?

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