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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?
(a) Cook.
(b) Cookie.
(c) Cookins.
(d) Cooks.

2. Janisse references a line of literature that may be the original source of the term 'Cracker': Who wrote the line, "What cracker is this same that deafes our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?"
(a) John Donne.
(b) Christopher Marlowe.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) William Shakespeare.

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

4. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?
(a) Augusta, Georgia.
(b) Baxley, Georgia.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Macon, Georgia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?

2. In what year was Clyo caught bootlegging for the second time, causing her to stop the practice from that point on?

3. Why did the welfare checks for Clyo and her children stop coming a few years after she and Charlie split up?

4. What chore done before a thunderstorm does Janisse use in the Introduction as a metaphor for the Georgian people seeing everything coming before it happens?

5. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?

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