Ecology of a Cracker Childhood Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Janisse Ray
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 198 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Janisse Ray
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What chore done before a thunderstorm does Janisse use in the Introduction as a metaphor for the Georgian people seeing everything coming before it happens?
(a) Rounding up the animals.
(b) Putting out the rain barrels.
(c) Raking the leaves.
(d) Bringing in the laundry.

2. In the chapter Beulahland, Janisse shares one of Beulah's recipes that was passed down to her for her hope chest. What dish is laid out in the recipe?
(a) Buttermilk pie.
(b) Shepherd's pie.
(c) Coconut cream pie.
(d) Buttermilk biscuits.

3. When tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?
(a) It did not bring as much money as other species of tree.
(b) Its taproot was unwieldy and it grew slowly.
(c) It required too much room to grow.
(d) Its seedlings were too expensive.

4. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?
(a) Because she liked to start off the next lesson by punishing her brothers for some imagined misbehavior by making them clean the chalkboard.
(b) Because she knew she could come back out after dinner and play by herself.
(c) Because she knew her brothers liked to clean the board off with the hose.
(d) Because she knew a thunderstorm would come soon and wash the board clean.

5. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?
(a) She would rather be helping her mother sew.
(b) She would rather be outside.
(c) She would rather be peeling potatoes.
(d) She would rather be learning how to fix cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of bird was Clyde, the bird that Frank nursed back to health after finding it on the side of the highway with a broken leg and wing?

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

3. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?

4. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?

5. How old was Janisse when her maternal grandfather Arthur died of cancer?

(see the answer key)

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