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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. Where did Janisse get pants to wear on the rafting trip, her very first time wearing pants due to her family's religious convictions?
(a) A local thrift store.
(b) The dump.
(c) She borrowed them from her brother Dell.
(d) In one of the cars in the junkyard.

2. Who fell overboard when the family visited the houseboat of another local family, prompting Frank to save the person?
(a) Janisse.
(b) Lee Ada.
(c) Steve.
(d) Dell.

3. Janisse describes her area of southern Georgia as lying below the fall line. What does she say that fall line serves to separate from one another?
(a) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.
(b) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.
(c) The Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.
(d) The Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

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

5. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.
(b) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(c) Under a grapevine.
(d) In a big cabbage in the garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leon Neel said that you have to think beyond your own what if you want to perpetuate the red-cockaded woodpecker?

2. What did Frank do with the painted tortoise when the vendor finally released it?

3. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?

4. How did Charlie die when he passed away three years prior to Clyo's death?

5. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?

(see the answer key)

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