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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. What was the punishment if Janisse or one of her siblings disobeyed Frank's instructions while they were left alone in the house?
(a) A week without friends being allowed to visit.
(b) A week without being allowed to play in the junkyard.
(c) A whipping with a belt.
(d) A beating with a wooden spoon.

2. What sign of distress did Janisse notice when looking at the painted tortoise?
(a) It had turned onto its back.
(b) It was making a faint wheezing sound.
(c) It had pulled its head into its shell.
(d) It was drooling from its nose and mouth.

3. Though she did not speak to Charlie for 25 years after they split up, what did Clyo do that showed she still cared about him?
(a) When Charlie came to visit their grown son across the street, she always fixed him a plate of food and sent another of their children over to give it to him.
(b) When Charlie came to visit the children still living in Clyo's home, Clyo always left the house but left Charlie one of their love notes from the past.
(c) When Charlie stopped in to the Greasy Spoon Cafe, she always sent him a little note on his napkin when she sent his food out from the kitchen.
(d) When Charlie had bad bouts of arthritis, Clyo always made up a batch of her special salve and sent it to Charlie.

4. What trail did Janisse and her college friends camp along the first time she went camping?
(a) The Appalachian Trail.
(b) The Aspen Trail.
(c) The Interurban Trail.
(d) The Okanagan Trail.

5. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?
(a) She waited until Janisse's father got home and sent him to find Janisse.
(b) She lured her with the promise of peaches.
(c) She called the sheriff to come search for Janisse among the junk.
(d) She tied jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?

3. What was the very first course Janisse scheduled for herself when she went off to college?

4. What kind of creature did Beulah catch in her hands one day, much to the delight of Janisse and her siblings?

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

(see the answer key)

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