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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Janisse references a line of literature that may be the original source of the term 'Cracker': Who wrote the line, "What cracker is this same that deafes our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?"
(a) John Donne.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Christopher Marlowe.
(d) William Shakespeare.

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

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

4. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?
(a) Plans.
(b) Machines.
(c) Memories.
(d) Goals.

5. 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 savior.
(b) A means to extinction.
(c) A means of distracting the masses from the real destruction.
(d) A means of possible survival.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?

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

3. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?

4. Of the 156 million acres that used to constitute the longleaf pine's southeastern range, how many of those acres were once covered by longleaf pines?

5. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?

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