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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 10, Timber, Janisse writes that railroads were to pines what railroads were to buffalo. What does she state that railroads were to both pines and buffalo?
(a) A means of possible survival.
(b) A savior.
(c) A means to extinction.
(d) A means of distracting the masses from the real destruction.

2. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?
(a) Making believe they were car salespeople.
(b) Pretending to be paramedics saving car accident victims.
(c) Chasing each other along the tops of salvaged cars.
(d) Playing church.

3. What does Janisse say the source of southern Georgia's majesty and sublimity used to come from before that source was destroyed?
(a) Many clear springs, rivers, and waterfalls.
(b) The clear, unpolluted skies.
(c) The wide diversity of native bird species.
(d) The longleaf pine forests.

4. How long did it take the family to travel to the nearest Apostolic Church, which was in the town of Brunswick?
(a) One hour.
(b) Ninety minutes.
(c) Two hours.
(d) Thirty minutes.

5. When tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?
(a) Its taproot was unwieldy and it grew slowly.
(b) Its seedlings were too expensive.
(c) It did not bring as much money as other species of tree.
(d) It required too much room to grow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?

2. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?

3. 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?

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

5. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?

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