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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What materials did Frank use in order to build the children a swing set in the backyard?
(a) Lengths of pipe.
(b) Car engines.
(c) Car hoods.
(d) Milk crates.

2. Janisse insists that she could never cook, telling a story about what happened the scant two times she tried to bake cookies. What happened each time?
(a) She forgot about them and they burned up.
(b) She forgot to add sugar.
(c) She added too much yeast and they began to flow out through the cracks in the oven door.
(d) She did not cook them long enough and served them raw.

3. What event first caused Janisse to talk to her teacher Lucia Godfrey during recess, sparking her interest in learning more about nature?
(a) Her mother tells Janisse a story about Lucia Godfrey that piques Janisse's interest.
(b) She is assigned recess detention for swearing.
(c) The boys will not allow her to play football.
(d) It starts to snow and Janisse asks her teacher about this rare event.

4. What threat did Janisse use to try to get the vendor to let her take the painted tortoise to safety?
(a) She said she would call the wildlife officer.
(b) She said she would call the police.
(c) She said she would call her father.
(d) She said she would knock over the vendor's wares.

5. After Lee Ada marries Frank, what task did she offer to help her father Arthur with when she was seeking to make peace with him?
(a) She offered to type up the manuscript of his memoirs.
(b) She offered to help him crop tobacco.
(c) She offered to help him fix the roof on the house.
(d) She offered to wash the dishes after supper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is an element of the dialect known as "Cracker speech"?

2. Pun's oft-given piece of advice to his son was, "Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off your heels." How does Janisse feel about this lesson?

3. Until what year was the Altamaha River the only mode of transportation for settlers in Appling County?

4. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?

5. Why did the welfare checks for Clyo and her children stop coming a few years after she and Charlie split up?

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