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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction & Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?
(a) The willow tree where she experienced her first kiss.
(b) The swath of huckleberry bushes deep in the forest behind her childhood home.
(c) The mouth of the Altamaha River.
(d) Her grandmother's and grandfather's graves in the cemetery.

2. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Baxley, Georgia.
(d) Augusta, Georgia.

3. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?
(a) How to play horseshoes and how to wrestle.
(b) How to fight and how to fish.
(c) How to find huckleberry patches and how to make a raft.
(d) How to play the piano and how to tie a good knot.

4. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
(a) Pretend to be both teacher and student.
(b) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.
(c) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.
(d) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.

5. In what year was Janisse born?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?

2. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?

3. What number child is Janisse within her family?

4. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?

5. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?

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