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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What evidence of the Lower Creek Indians' prior presence did Lee Ada find on Beulah's property when she was a little girl?
(a) Pieces of woven baskets.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Arrowhead points.
(d) Pottery shards.

3. What was the only way the children could tell if Frank thought they had done well at target practice on a particular day?
(a) If they overheard him bragging to one of his brothers about the children's performance.
(b) If he bought them ice cream on the way home.
(c) If he gave them all a quick hug at the end of practice.
(d) If they overheard him telling their mother Lee Ada.

4. For what reason did Frank throw out the family's television set when Janisse's little sister Kay was a baby?
(a) He did not want his children to find out about romance and sexuality before he was ready.
(b) He thought his wife Lee Ada watched too many soap operas.
(c) He was angry when he found the children watching cartoons instead of completing their chores.
(d) He did not want the knowledge of violence to reach his children.

5. Which of the following is an element of the dialect known as "Cracker speech"?
(a) The drawing out of vowel sounds.
(b) Dangling participles.
(c) Widespread use of the double negative.
(d) Ending sentences with prepositions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the maximum life span of a gopher tortoise?

2. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?

3. What did Frank use to beat Janisse and her brothers after they stood by while a neighbor boy killed a snapping turtle?

4. What was the name of the closest mental hospital to the Rays' home, where many family members and neighbors of theirs spent time?

5. What article of clothing did Lee Ada make for Janisse that caused people to call her Little Red Riding Hood?

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