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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. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Zoo.
(c) Runaway school bus.
(d) Chain gang.

2. What did Frank use to plug the holes in the flat-bottomed boat?
(a) Tape.
(b) Bread.
(c) Rubber plugs.
(d) Corks.

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

4. At the height of the red-cockaded woodpecker's population growth in the eastern United States, about how many were there?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 750,000.

5. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?
(a) Poisoning.
(b) Lockjaw.
(c) A bad cut.
(d) Plague.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a list included in the Appendixes at the back of the memoir that focuses on the uplands in the southern coastal plain?

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

3. What reason did Frank provide for giving Lee Ada a note saying, "Yes, Lee Ada, I will love you forever."

4. In what year did Clyo finally succumb to her various maladies?

5. The author writes that although the families in her area would have defended the land to the death, they lacked three things that would have allowed them to care about the actual health of its natural communities. What were those three things?

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