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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(b) That she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(c) That she'd been brought by a stork.
(d) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.

2. 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.

3. At the hands of the tree farmers, the land was laid bare. What simile does Janisse use to describe its bare state?
(a) Bare as a vulture's pate.
(b) Bare as a sand dune.
(c) Bare as a possum's tail.
(d) Bare as a blank sheet of paper.

4. 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?
(a) Raking the leaves.
(b) Rounding up the animals.
(c) Putting out the rain barrels.
(d) Bringing in the laundry.

5. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?
(a) Every five years.
(b) Every three months.
(c) Every week.
(d) Every two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?

2. What was the subject of Janisse's recurring daydream she had during church services?

3. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?

4. What was the catalyst for the "opening" of Janisse's heart referenced in the chapter title How the Heart Opens?

5. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?

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