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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?
(a) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.
(b) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(c) The concrete wall of the garage.
(d) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.

2. What kind of creature did Beulah catch in her hands one day, much to the delight of Janisse and her siblings?
(a) A red-cockaded woodpecker.
(b) A sparrow.
(c) A chameleon.
(d) A ruby-throated hummingbird.

3. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?
(a) He was a local veterinarian and his van was in the family junkyard.
(b) He was a local bank robber and his old car was in the family junkyard.
(c) He was a local doctor and his old ambulance was in the family junkyard.
(d) He was a local mortician and his hearse was in the family junkyard.

4. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
(a) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.
(b) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.
(c) Pretend to be both teacher and student.
(d) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.

5. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?
(a) Cook.
(b) Cooks.
(c) Cookie.
(d) Cookins.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take the family to travel to the nearest Apostolic Church, which was in the town of Brunswick?

2. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?

3. 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?

4. When tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?

5. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?

(see the answer key)

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