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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction & Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What number child is Janisse within her family?
(a) Second-born.
(b) First-born.
(c) Fourth-born.
(d) Third-born.

2. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?
(a) How to play horseshoes and how to wrestle.
(b) How to play the piano and how to tie a good knot.
(c) How to fight and how to fish.
(d) How to find huckleberry patches and how to make a raft.

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

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

5. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?
(a) Engines.
(b) Windows.
(c) Copper wire.
(d) Radiators.

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. 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. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?

4. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?

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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