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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 constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?
(a) Pretending to be paramedics saving car accident victims.
(b) Making believe they were car salespeople.
(c) Chasing each other along the tops of salvaged cars.
(d) Playing church.

2. How far a distance do flatwood salamanders travel each way in order to reach the breeding grounds?
(a) 3 miles.
(b) 500 yards.
(c) 1 mile.
(d) 200 yards.

3. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?
(a) They bought them from garage sales and sneaked them home in their backpacks.
(b) They waited for the Bookmobile to make a stop in town and spent hours inside the van reading forbidden titles.
(c) They sneaked them home from the library within their clothes and sandwiched them between acceptable volumes.
(d) They borrowed them from friends and read them only in the junkyard when their father was not around.

4. What was the punishment if Janisse or one of her siblings disobeyed Frank's instructions while they were left alone in the house?
(a) A week without being allowed to play in the junkyard.
(b) A week without friends being allowed to visit.
(c) A beating with a wooden spoon.
(d) A whipping with a belt.

5. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Janisse when the family's boat sprung a leak on the Altamaha River and dumped everyone into the water?

2. Though the preacher at first refused to marry Lee Ada and Frank, he finally agreed, providing they agree to one condition. What was that one condition?

3. What is the average amount of rainfall in Appling County, Georgia?

4. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?

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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