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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what store did Beulah shop every Friday, rain or shine?
(a) Ray's.
(b) Helmann's.
(c) Alpha-Beta.
(d) Piggly Wiggly.

2. When Milton told a story about catching an eight-foot-long indigo snake and it getting loose in his family's home, where did he say they eventually found it?
(a) Wrapped around a pipe under the bathroom sink.
(b) In the attic.
(c) Wrapped around the coils behind the freezer.
(d) In the basement.

3. How old was Lee Ada when she married Frank?
(a) 16.
(b) 20.
(c) 18.
(d) 25.

4. 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 giving him all the money she had.
(d) By telling him that the children would be better off without him.

5. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?
(a) 180 years.
(b) 210 years.
(c) 86 years.
(d) 150 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?

2. What was the main reason Janisse and her siblings were not anxious to use the camper on a trip?

3. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?

4. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?

5. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?

(see the answer key)

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