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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?
(a) Swamps and monsoons.
(b) Longleaf pines and lightning.
(c) Rivers and grasslands.
(d) Humans and longleaf pines.

2. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?
(a) He felt that God had not officially or personally called him to preach.
(b) He did not know how he could make enough money as a preacher in order to support his large family.
(c) He wanted to move the family to a different county.
(d) He did not think his growing congregation was devoted enough to their faith.

3. What elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?
(a) Prejudices against them forced others to continually drive them out of the areas in which they had settled.
(b) Their professions as shepherds required moving to new lands where the sheep could graze.
(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. When Janisse's family said grace before each meal, each child in the family was required to say something. What were they required by Frank to say?
(a) The Lord's Prayer in its entirety.
(b) An expression of love toward God.
(c) A memorized Bible verse.
(d) Something for which each child is thankful.

5. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?
(a) Because she liked to start off the next lesson by punishing her brothers for some imagined misbehavior by making them clean the chalkboard.
(b) Because she knew she could come back out after dinner and play by herself.
(c) Because she knew a thunderstorm would come soon and wash the board clean.
(d) Because she knew her brothers liked to clean the board off with the hose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?

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?

3. Which of the following is an element of the dialect known as "Cracker speech"?

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

5. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?

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