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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. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?
(a) Almost every summer afternoon.
(b) At least three times a week.
(c) Rarely.
(d) About once a month.

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

3. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?
(a) Billy Graham.
(b) Jimmy Swaggart.
(c) Jerry Falwell.
(d) Tammy Faye Baker.

4. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?
(a) Beside a huckleberry bush.
(b) Inside a big cabbage in the garden.
(c) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(d) Under a grapevine.

5. The biography at the end of the memoir states where Janisse Ray lived at the time of the memoir's writing. Where did she live?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Macon.
(d) Baxley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What position did Janisse occupy at her college that allowed her to ask James Dickey to come speak at her campus?

3. How old was Lee Ada when she married Frank?

4. Though everyone was aware of Frank's predilection toward mental illness, what did everyone, including the police, agree was another possible cause of his first major nervous breakdown?

5. What threat did Janisse use to try to get the vendor to let her take the painted tortoise to safety?

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