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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Charlie hope to accomplish by placing old shoes beneath plants?
(a) He said it would inspire the plants to outrun any diseases that threatened their health.
(b) He thought the leather would insulate the plants from contact with the frozen ground.
(c) He hoped that the slowly decomposing leather would leech nitrogen to fertilize the plants.
(d) He believed that shoes were good luck for living things.

2. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?
(a) An insurance office.
(b) A pharmacy.
(c) A thrift store.
(d) A restaurant.

3. 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) Frank discovers that Charlie has been siphoning money from the business into his own pockets.
(c) Charlie cares only about living paycheck to paycheck, but Frank wants to do more than just survive.
(d) Charlie wants to move to Florida to pick oranges for a living.

4. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?
(a) Chain gang.
(b) Runaway school bus.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Zoo.

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 the knowledge of violence to reach his children.
(b) He did not want his children to find out about romance and sexuality before he was ready.
(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. 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?

2. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?

3. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?

4. Of the 156 million acres that used to constitute the longleaf pine's southeastern range, how many of those acres were once covered by longleaf pines?

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

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