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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Time, understanding, and leisure.
(b) Money, space, and time.
(c) Means, education, and ease.
(d) Freedom, money, and time.

2. Janisse describes her area of southern Georgia as lying below the fall line. What does she say that fall line serves to separate from one another?
(a) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.
(b) The Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
(c) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.
(d) The Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.

3. What sign of distress did Janisse notice when looking at the painted tortoise?
(a) It had turned onto its back.
(b) It had pulled its head into its shell.
(c) It was making a faint wheezing sound.
(d) It was drooling from its nose and mouth.

4. Though Frank did not graduate from high school, Janisse cited two other forms of education that Frank sought out and received. What were those two sources of education?
(a) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(b) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.
(c) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.
(d) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.

5. What event did Frank attend on the day he had his first major nervous breakdown during Janisse's childhood?
(a) A gem and rock show.
(b) A car show.
(c) A gun show.
(d) A boat show.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?

2. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?

3. What was the name of the Rays' neighbor who survived a train accident in 1955?

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

5. Pun's oft-given piece of advice to his son was, "Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off your heels." How does Janisse feel about this lesson?

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