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

2. Janisse insists that she could never cook, telling a story about what happened the scant two times she tried to bake cookies. What happened each time?
(a) She added too much yeast and they began to flow out through the cracks in the oven door.
(b) She forgot about them and they burned up.
(c) She forgot to add sugar.
(d) She did not cook them long enough and served them raw.

3. 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) William Faulkner.
(c) Christopher Marlowe.
(d) William Shakespeare.

4. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
(a) A cart to pull behind the family car.
(b) A bathtub frame.
(c) An arbor for a grapevine.
(d) A jungle gym.

5. When Janisse relates that the children did not believe their birth stories, what does she say would have been a more believable story for their parents to have told about her own birth?
(a) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(b) That she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(c) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.
(d) That she'd been brought by a stork.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?

2. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?

3. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?

4. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?

5. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?

(see the answer key)

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