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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-19.

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) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.
(b) In a big cabbage in the garden.
(c) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(d) Under a grapevine.

2. How long did it take the family to travel to the nearest Apostolic Church, which was in the town of Brunswick?
(a) Thirty minutes.
(b) One hour.
(c) Ninety minutes.
(d) Two hours.

3. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?
(a) Patience and doggedness.
(b) Intelligence and kindness.
(c) Understanding and order.
(d) Dexterity and compassion.

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) He suddenly remembered a particularly violent episode involving his father.
(c) He had not eaten for several days and it had affected his mental state.
(d) His new friend spiked his lunch with LSD.

5. What kind of creature did Beulah catch in her hands one day, much to the delight of Janisse and her siblings?
(a) A sparrow.
(b) A chameleon.
(c) A red-cockaded woodpecker.
(d) A ruby-throated hummingbird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?

2. At the height of the red-cockaded woodpecker's population growth in the eastern United States, about how many were there?

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

4. What evidence of the Lower Creek Indians' prior presence did Lee Ada find on Beulah's property when she was a little girl?

5. The author writes that although the families in her area would have defended the land to the death, they lacked three things that would have allowed them to care about the actual health of its natural communities. What were those three things?

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