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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-30, Afterword, & Appendices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the welfare checks for Clyo and her children stop coming a few years after she and Charlie split up?
(a) Because all of the children began working odd jobs to help support the family.
(b) Because Clyo had started to make more money in the cotton fields.
(c) Because when the welfare office contacted Charlie to sign some papers, he said he would support the children himself if Clyo would send them down to him in Florida.
(d) Because Charlie somehow changed the listed family address at the welfare office.

2. What event did Frank attend on the day he had his first major nervous breakdown during Janisse's childhood?
(a) A gem and rock show.
(b) A boat show.
(c) A gun show.
(d) A car show.

3. What job did Janisse's friend Milton have when they were hiking and found the rare indigo snake together?
(a) Zoologist.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Baker.
(d) Botanist.

4. The town in which Janisse's college stood was supported by college students and what other form of revenue?
(a) Federal money.
(b) A drive-in theater that drew people from hours away.
(c) Tourists who came to see the leaves change color.
(d) A mail-order flower delivery service.

5. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?
(a) Under a grapevine.
(b) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(c) Beside a huckleberry bush.
(d) Inside a big cabbage in the garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Janisse's mother Lee Ada and her sister Kay call Janisse?

2. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?

3. Why did Janisse choose to go to North Georgia College?

4. What was the very first course Janisse scheduled for herself when she went off to college?

5. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?

(see the answer key)

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