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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Janisse when her maternal grandfather Arthur died of cancer?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

2. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?
(a) A Separate Peace.
(b) A Brave New World.
(c) Absalom, Absalom.
(d) Ecotopia.

3. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
(a) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.
(b) Pretend to be both teacher and student.
(c) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.
(d) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.

4. During the time Clyo worked in the cotton fields, what was one health problem from which she did NOT suffer?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Bad knees.
(c) A lost kidney.
(d) Gout.

5. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?
(a) Rarely.
(b) At least three times a week.
(c) Almost every summer afternoon.
(d) About once a month.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?

2. What city is NOT one of the bigger cities closest to Janisse's hometown?

3. How did Charlie die when he passed away three years prior to Clyo's death?

4. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?

5. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?

(see the answer key)

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