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

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) 1930.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1950.

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

3. What did Charlie hope to accomplish by placing old shoes beneath plants?
(a) He hoped that the slowly decomposing leather would leech nitrogen to fertilize the plants.
(b) He believed that shoes were good luck for living things.
(c) He said it would inspire the plants to outrun any diseases that threatened their health.
(d) He thought the leather would insulate the plants from contact with the frozen ground.

4. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?
(a) She called the sheriff to come search for Janisse among the junk.
(b) She tied jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes.
(c) She waited until Janisse's father got home and sent him to find Janisse.
(d) She lured her with the promise of peaches.

5. What does the term bricoleur mean?
(a) A term given to a bread-maker who uses only natural ingredients.
(b) A term given to folk recyclers, those who find purposes for castaway objects in which others cannot see a value.
(c) A term given to someone who cannot see a situation from another's perspective.
(d) A term given to a manipulative person.

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. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?

3. What does Janisse say the source of southern Georgia's majesty and sublimity used to come from before that source was destroyed?

4. Though she patiently and valiantly fought to bring Frank back to mental health, what happened to finally convince Lee Ada that Frank needed to check in to a mental hospital?

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?

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