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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Janisse read that caused her to look closely at an anthill in the junkyard and to simply the furnishings in her room?
(a) Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Absalom, Absalom.
(c) On Golden Pond.
(d) Walden.

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

3. In what year was Clyo caught bootlegging for the second time, causing her to stop the practice from that point on?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1975.

4. What elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?
(a) The torrential rains in the area often flooded their homes, so they would move on to higher and drier ground.
(b) The border between Scotland and England was often in turmoil due to wars over to whom the territories belonged.
(c) Prejudices against them forced others to continually drive them out of the areas in which they had settled.
(d) Their professions as shepherds required moving to new lands where the sheep could graze.

5. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?
(a) Fulton County.
(b) Appling County.
(c) Grasslands County.
(d) Mason County.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?

2. Why did Lee Ada and Frank elope?

3. What did Frank tell the children they must do if anyone approached the family's swimming hole while he was teaching them to swim?

4. The author writes that although the families in her area would have defended the land to the death, they lacked three things that would have allowed them to care about the actual health of its natural communities. What were those three things?

5. How many children did Clyo and Charlie have together?

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