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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-30, Afterword, & Appendices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?
(a) The river that flowed through town had been polluted by the nearby sewage treatment plant.
(b) The town's main street was lined with magnolia trees.
(c) There was frequent spreading of fertilizer on the crops to keep the soil fertile.
(d) There was a paper mill in town that emitted the smell of rotten eggs.

2. What poet did both Janisse and her gun-toting, feminist, mountain woman friend both adore and read to each other out loud?
(a) William Blake.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) John Donne.

3. The family's junkyard was bordered by a group of row houses that lacked two modern conveniences. What two elements did the houses lack?
(a) Running water and telephone service.
(b) Electricity and telephone service.
(c) Electricity and running water.
(d) Heat and running water.

4. At the time of the memoir's writing, about many red-cockaded woodpeckers were left in the United States, most of them relegated to Florida?
(a) 4,500.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 7,500.
(d) 3,000.

5. For what reason did Frank throw out the family's television set when Janisse's little sister Kay was a baby?
(a) He did not want his children to find out about romance and sexuality before he was ready.
(b) He did not want the knowledge of violence to reach his children.
(c) He was angry when he found the children watching cartoons instead of completing their chores.
(d) He thought his wife Lee Ada watched too many soap operas.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?

2. Though the preacher at first refused to marry Lee Ada and Frank, he finally agreed, providing they agree to one condition. What was that one condition?

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?

4. How old was Janisse when she first saw real snow?

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

(see the answer key)

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