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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?
(a) At least three times a week.
(b) Rarely.
(c) About once a month.
(d) Almost every summer afternoon.

2. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?
(a) Absalom, Absalom.
(b) Ecotopia.
(c) A Brave New World.
(d) A Separate Peace.

3. Of the 156 million acres that used to constitute the longleaf pine's southeastern range, how many of those acres were once covered by longleaf pines?
(a) 65 million.
(b) 105 million.
(c) 85 million.
(d) 35 million.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Janisse relates that the children did not believe their birth stories, what does she say would have been a more believable story for their parents to have told about her own birth?

2. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?

3. What breed was the dog that Frank treated with painkillers and saved after it had been hit by a car on the highway?

4. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?

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

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