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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though she patiently and valiantly fought to bring Frank back to mental health, what happened to finally convince Lee Ada that Frank needed to check in to a mental hospital?
(a) Frank cooked a rat and prepared to eat it for dinner.
(b) Frank walked into town while naked.
(c) Frank locked her and the children in the back bedroom for hours, denying them food and water and murmuring to himself as he paced the house.
(d) Frank lay in the yard for two days, refusing to get up.

2. 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 wide diversity of native bird species.
(c) The clear, unpolluted skies.
(d) The longleaf pine forests.

3. 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?
(a) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.
(b) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.
(c) The Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
(d) The Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.

4. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(b) Under a grapevine.
(c) In a big cabbage in the garden.
(d) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?

2. What prompted Frank to buy out his father Charlie's share of the salvage business?

3. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?

4. What expensive item did Frank buy for the household in order to foster his childrens' interest in knowledge and learning?

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?

(see the answer key)

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