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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 is the maximum rainfall that occurs in Appling County in a given year?
(a) 60 inches.
(b) 25 inches.
(c) 48 inches.
(d) 72 inches.

2. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?
(a) By calling the police and threatening to have him recommitted.
(b) By telling him that he could live in the old van down by the river.
(c) By telling him that the children would be better off without him.
(d) By giving him all the money she had.

3. 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?
(a) She says that she has never learned it and hopes that she never does.
(b) She says that she does not know what it truly means.
(c) She says that everyone in her family appears to have learned it except her, and she wishes she could learn it.
(d) She says that she has tried to live her life by it but has failed.

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

5. For what reason did Frank throw out the family's television set when Janisse's little sister Kay was a baby?
(a) He was angry when he found the children watching cartoons instead of completing their chores.
(b) He thought his wife Lee Ada watched too many soap operas.
(c) He did not want the knowledge of violence to reach his children.
(d) He did not want his children to find out about romance and sexuality before he was ready.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?

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

4. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?

5. On what object did Lee Ada embroider the words, "I love you, Franklin"?

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