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

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

2. During the time Clyo worked in the cotton fields, what was one health problem from which she did NOT suffer?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Gout.
(c) A lost kidney.
(d) Bad knees.

3. When Janisse relates that the children did not believe their birth stories, what does she say would have been a more believable story for their parents to have told about her own birth?
(a) That she'd been brought by a stork.
(b) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(c) That she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(d) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.

4. Which state designated the gopher tortoise as their state reptile in 1989?
(a) Texas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Florida.
(d) Kentucky.

5. What was the catalyst for the "opening" of Janisse's heart referenced in the chapter title How the Heart Opens?
(a) Her fascination with the carnivorous pitcher plant.
(b) Her father's healing from his mental illness.
(c) Her discovery of her love for painting.
(d) Her brother's decision to become a minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the children call their club whose purpose was to search the salvaged cars for valuable items?

2. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?

3. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?

4. What city is NOT one of the bigger cities closest to Janisse's hometown?

5. Though everyone was aware of Frank's predilection toward mental illness, what did everyone, including the police, agree was another possible cause of his first major nervous breakdown?

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