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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?
(a) They were the only family with fewer than eight children.
(b) They celebrated Christmas.
(c) They were the only white members of the congregation.
(d) They were the only ones who did not speak in tongues.

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

3. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?
(a) Goals.
(b) Memories.
(c) Plans.
(d) Machines.

4. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
(a) An arbor for a grapevine.
(b) A cart to pull behind the family car.
(c) A bathtub frame.
(d) A jungle gym.

5. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?
(a) 180 years.
(b) 150 years.
(c) 210 years.
(d) 86 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?

2. When Janisse's family said grace before each meal, each child in the family was required to say something. What were they required by Frank to say?

3. At the hands of the tree farmers, the land was laid bare. What simile does Janisse use to describe its bare state?

4. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?

5. When Janisse relates that the children did not believe their birth stories, what does she say would have been a more believable story for their parents to have told about her own birth?

(see the answer key)

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