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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?
(a) His tendency to talk for hours on end without listening to their replies.
(b) His inability to sleep.
(c) Displays of anger.
(d) Impulsive actions concerning his salvaging business.

5. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?
(a) Windows.
(b) Engines.
(c) Copper wire.
(d) Radiators.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?

2. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?

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

4. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?

5. What materials did Frank use in order to build the children a swing set in the backyard?

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