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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 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 tied jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes.
(b) She lured her with the promise of peaches.
(c) She waited until Janisse's father got home and sent him to find Janisse.
(d) She called the sheriff to come search for Janisse among the junk.

2. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?
(a) They were the only white members of the congregation.
(b) They were the only ones who did not speak in tongues.
(c) They were the only family with fewer than eight children.
(d) They celebrated Christmas.

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 liked to start off the next lesson by punishing her brothers for some imagined misbehavior by making them clean the chalkboard.
(c) Because she knew a thunderstorm would come soon and wash the board clean.
(d) Because she knew her brothers liked to clean the board off with the hose.

4. What was the name of the Rays' neighbor who survived a train accident in 1955?
(a) Willie.
(b) Jeffrey.
(c) Joey.
(d) Charlie.

5. 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?
(a) 7,500.
(b) 4,500.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 3,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat did Janisse use to try to get the vendor to let her take the painted tortoise to safety?

2. The author writes that although the families in her area would have defended the land to the death, they lacked three things that would have allowed them to care about the actual health of its natural communities. What were those three things?

3. How did Charlie die when he passed away three years prior to Clyo's death?

4. What elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?

5. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?

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