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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 learning how to fix cars.
(b) She would rather be helping her mother sew.
(c) She would rather be outside.
(d) She would rather be peeling potatoes.

2. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?
(a) Critically endangered.
(b) Virtually extinct.
(c) Endangered.
(d) Extinct.

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

4. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?
(a) 500 years old.
(b) 300 years old.
(c) 1000 years old.
(d) 200 years old.

5. What number child is Janisse within her family?
(a) Fourth-born.
(b) Second-born.
(c) First-born.
(d) Third-born.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Charlie die when he passed away three years prior to Clyo's death?

2. During the time Clyo worked in the cotton fields, what was one health problem from which she did NOT suffer?

3. 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?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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