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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Janisse when the family's boat sprung a leak on the Altamaha River and dumped everyone into the water?
(a) Two years old.
(b) Two months old.
(c) Three years old.
(d) Three months old.

2. 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 lay in the yard for two days, refusing to get up.
(b) 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.
(c) Frank walked into town while naked.
(d) Frank cooked a rat and prepared to eat it for dinner.

3. When the author writes that Frank would often help "a family like the Joads" by feeding them or finding candy for their children when they stopped in to get a part to fix their broken-down car, what novel is she referencing?
(a) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
(b) The Stranger by Albert Camus.
(c) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
(d) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

4. What does the term bricoleur mean?
(a) A term given to a bread-maker who uses only natural ingredients.
(b) A term given to folk recyclers, those who find purposes for castaway objects in which others cannot see a value.
(c) A term given to a manipulative person.
(d) A term given to someone who cannot see a situation from another's perspective.

5. How did Charlie die when he passed away three years prior to Clyo's death?
(a) He came down with a severe bout of pneumonia.
(b) He got into a car accident.
(c) He stopped eating and starved to death.
(d) He had a massive heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of creature did Beulah catch in her hands one day, much to the delight of Janisse and her siblings?

2. What breed was the dog that Frank treated with painkillers and saved after it had been hit by a car on the highway?

3. What does the name Lucia mean?

4. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?

5. Who fell overboard when the family visited the houseboat of another local family, prompting Frank to save the person?

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