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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. Though she patiently and valiantly fought to bring Frank back to mental health, what happened to finally convince Lee Ada that Frank needed to check in to a mental hospital?
(a) Frank cooked a rat and prepared to eat it for dinner.
(b) Frank lay in the yard for two days, refusing to get up.
(c) Frank walked into town while naked.
(d) Frank locked her and the children in the back bedroom for hours, denying them food and water and murmuring to himself as he paced the house.

2. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?
(a) Cookie.
(b) Cook.
(c) Cooks.
(d) Cookins.

3. On what object did Lee Ada embroider the words, "I love you, Franklin"?
(a) On a quilt.
(b) On his steering wheel cover.
(c) On his shirt pocket.
(d) On a tea cozy.

4. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?
(a) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.
(b) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.
(c) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(d) The concrete wall of the garage.

5. After Lee Ada marries Frank, what task did she offer to help her father Arthur with when she was seeking to make peace with him?
(a) She offered to help him fix the roof on the house.
(b) She offered to type up the manuscript of his memoirs.
(c) She offered to help him crop tobacco.
(d) She offered to wash the dishes after supper.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 job did Janisse's friend Milton have when they were hiking and found the rare indigo snake together?

4. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?

5. After all of their children had grown up, where did Frank and Lee Ada buy a piece of property?

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