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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 tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?
(a) It required too much room to grow.
(b) Its taproot was unwieldy and it grew slowly.
(c) Its seedlings were too expensive.
(d) It did not bring as much money as other species of tree.

2. When Janisse handled the indigo snake that she and Milton had found, she writes that she handled the snake with care for two reasons. One was that she was precious. What was the other reason?
(a) Because she appeared to have just eaten a relatively large meal.
(b) Because she could inflict a severe bite if she sense fear or became afraid.
(c) Because she was four feet long and the size of her scared Janisse.
(d) Because she appeared to be pregnant.

3. 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 felt that God had not officially or personally called him to preach.
(c) He did not know how he could make enough money as a preacher in order to support his large family.
(d) He wanted to move the family to a different county.

4. Though everyone was aware of Frank's predilection toward mental illness, what did everyone, including the police, agree was another possible cause of his first major nervous breakdown?
(a) He found out Lee Ada had been unfaithful.
(b) His new friend spiked his lunch with LSD.
(c) He had not eaten for several days and it had affected his mental state.
(d) He suddenly remembered a particularly violent episode involving his father.

5. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?
(a) They sneaked them home from the library within their clothes and sandwiched them between acceptable volumes.
(b) They borrowed them from friends and read them only in the junkyard when their father was not around.
(c) They waited for the Bookmobile to make a stop in town and spent hours inside the van reading forbidden titles.
(d) They bought them from garage sales and sneaked them home in their backpacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did Frank provide for giving Lee Ada a note saying, "Yes, Lee Ada, I will love you forever."

2. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?

3. 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?

4. What did Frank use to plug the holes in the flat-bottomed boat?

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

(see the answer key)

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