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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 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 woodpecker.
(c) A robin.
(d) A pigeon.

2. What does Janisse say the source of southern Georgia's majesty and sublimity used to come from before that source was destroyed?
(a) The clear, unpolluted skies.
(b) Many clear springs, rivers, and waterfalls.
(c) The longleaf pine forests.
(d) The wide diversity of native bird species.

3. At the height of the red-cockaded woodpecker's population growth in the eastern United States, about how many were there?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 250,000.

4. When Janisse decided she wanted to be more like other girls, what did she try?
(a) Shopping for new clothing.
(b) Cheerleading.
(c) Dating.
(d) Wearing makeup.

5. Though Frank did not graduate from high school, Janisse cited two other forms of education that Frank sought out and received. What were those two sources of education?
(a) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(b) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.
(c) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.
(d) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which state designated the gopher tortoise as their state reptile in 1989?

2. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?

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

4. When the author writes that Frank would often help "a family like the Joads" by feeding them or finding candy for their children when they stopped in to get a part to fix their broken-down car, what novel is she referencing?

5. 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?

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