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

2. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) Under a grapevine.
(b) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.
(c) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(d) In a big cabbage in the garden.

3. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?
(a) Because she knew she could come back out after dinner and play by herself.
(b) Because she knew a thunderstorm would come soon and wash the board clean.
(c) Because she knew her brothers liked to clean the board off with the hose.
(d) Because she liked to start off the next lesson by punishing her brothers for some imagined misbehavior by making them clean the chalkboard.

4. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?
(a) He wanted to move the family to a different county.
(b) He did not think his growing congregation was devoted enough to their faith.
(c) He felt that God had not officially or personally called him to preach.
(d) He did not know how he could make enough money as a preacher in order to support his large family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Janisse's family said grace before each meal, each child in the family was required to say something. What were they required by Frank to say?

2. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?

3. What job did Janisse's great-grandfather Pun have that she sees as having wreaked havoc on the longleaf pine forests?

4. What did Charlie hope to accomplish by placing old shoes beneath plants?

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

(see the answer key)

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