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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is an element of the dialect known as "Cracker speech"?
(a) Ending sentences with prepositions.
(b) The drawing out of vowel sounds.
(c) Dangling participles.
(d) Widespread use of the double negative.

3. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?
(a) They met at a friend's house and watched It's a Wonderful Life on television.
(b) They decorated a tree deep in the forest and exchanged gifts with one another.
(c) They used headlights from the salvaged cars to make a string of high-powered Christmas lights as decorations for their tree house.
(d) They went caroling in a neighborhood across town.

4. What type of bird was Clyde, the bird that Frank nursed back to health after finding it on the side of the highway with a broken leg and wing?
(a) A heron.
(b) A robin.
(c) A woodpecker.
(d) A pigeon.

5. What job did Janisse's great-grandfather Pun have that she sees as having wreaked havoc on the longleaf pine forests?
(a) Lumberjack.
(b) Cattle herder.
(c) Surveyor.
(d) Farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?

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

3. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?

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. What event did Frank attend on the day he had his first major nervous breakdown during Janisse's childhood?

(see the answer key)

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