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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1890.

2. What was the name of the drunk transient man whom Frank invited in for dinner?
(a) Elray.
(b) Elvin.
(c) Elrod.
(d) Elvis.

3. Why did the welfare checks for Clyo and her children stop coming a few years after she and Charlie split up?
(a) Because all of the children began working odd jobs to help support the family.
(b) Because Clyo had started to make more money in the cotton fields.
(c) Because Charlie somehow changed the listed family address at the welfare office.
(d) Because when the welfare office contacted Charlie to sign some papers, he said he would support the children himself if Clyo would send them down to him in Florida.

4. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1970.

5. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?
(a) They met at a friend's house and watched It's a Wonderful Life on television.
(b) They used headlights from the salvaged cars to make a string of high-powered Christmas lights as decorations for their tree house.
(c) They decorated a tree deep in the forest and exchanged gifts with one another.
(d) They went caroling in a neighborhood across town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat did Janisse use to try to get the vendor to let her take the painted tortoise to safety?

2. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?

3. Janisse references a line of literature that may be the original source of the term 'Cracker': Who wrote the line, "What cracker is this same that deafes our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?"

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

5. At the time of the memoir's writing, about many red-cockaded woodpeckers were left in the United States, most of them relegated to Florida?

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