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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?
(a) Their professions as shepherds required moving to new lands where the sheep could graze.
(b) The torrential rains in the area often flooded their homes, so they would move on to higher and drier ground.
(c) Prejudices against them forced others to continually drive them out of the areas in which they had settled.
(d) The border between Scotland and England was often in turmoil due to wars over to whom the territories belonged.

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

3. John James Audubon is famous for something besides the bird-watching society that carries his name. How did he make his living?
(a) Veterinarian.
(b) Artist.
(c) Author.
(d) Doctor.

4. At the height of the red-cockaded woodpecker's population growth in the eastern United States, about how many were there?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

5. In the chapter Beulahland, Janisse shares one of Beulah's recipes that was passed down to her for her hope chest. What dish is laid out in the recipe?
(a) Buttermilk biscuits.
(b) Buttermilk pie.
(c) Shepherd's pie.
(d) Coconut cream pie.

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. Indigo snakes have a four-month mating season once a year. When is it?

4. Though Janisse had never seen an indigo snake in the wild until she was an adult, her older friend Milton said that he had seen them before. In what context had he seen them?

5. How long did it take the family to travel to the nearest Apostolic Church, which was in the town of Brunswick?

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