1. Though Janisse had never seen an indigo snake in the wild until she was an adult, her older friend Milton said that he had seen them before. In what context had he seen them?
(a) In reptile zoos.
(b) In aquariums.
(c) In the wild twenty or thirty years prior.
(d) Wrapped around women in carnival sideshows.

2. Once Janisse moved away from home to attend college, she "dived recklessly and surely into the world, not because it was a form of rebellion, as people might think, but..." (255). What does she say is the actual reason for her recklessness?
(a) As a way to find herself.
(b) As a form of healing and survival.
(c) As a means of experimentation.
(d) Because she just did what her friends did.

3. What did Frank tell the children they must do if anyone approached the family's swimming hole while he was teaching them to swim?
(a) They have to be nice to the newcomers and introduce themselves.
(b) They have to run and jump into the car even if they are soaking wet.
(c) They have to grab their towels and cover up as quickly as they can.
(d) They have to go underwater.

4. What city is NOT one of the bigger cities closest to Janisse's hometown?
(a) Jacksonville.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Macon.

5. Though the preacher at first refused to marry Lee Ada and Frank, he finally agreed, providing they agree to one condition. What was that one condition?
(a) They will not tell their parents who officiated the ceremony.
(b) They will refrain from having children for one full year.
(c) They will get married outside rather than in the church.
(d) They will name their firstborn child after the preacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What chore done before a thunderstorm does Janisse use in the Introduction as a metaphor for the Georgian people seeing everything coming before it happens?

2. In what city was North Georgia College?

3. Where did Leon Neel take Janisse, saying it is his model for his own work?

4. Whose name did Clyo call out when she lay dying?

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

(see the answer key)

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