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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Clyo caught bootlegging for the second time, causing her to stop the practice from that point on?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1945.

2. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?
(a) Extinct.
(b) Critically endangered.
(c) Virtually extinct.
(d) Endangered.

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

4. What is the maximum rainfall that occurs in Appling County in a given year?
(a) 60 inches.
(b) 48 inches.
(c) 72 inches.
(d) 25 inches.

5. What prompted Frank to buy out his father Charlie's share of the salvage business?
(a) Charlie cares only about living paycheck to paycheck, but Frank wants to do more than just survive.
(b) Frank discovers that Charlie has been siphoning money from the business into his own pockets.
(c) Frank fights too often with Charlie, making the workplace too tense.
(d) Charlie wants to move to Florida to pick oranges for a living.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?

2. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?

3. 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?

4. 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?"

5. For what practice does the gopher tortoise require open sunny spots within their habitats?

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