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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?
(a) Cooks.
(b) Cookins.
(c) Cook.
(d) Cookie.

2. Though Frank did not graduate from high school, Janisse cited two other forms of education that Frank sought out and received. What were those two sources of education?
(a) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(b) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.
(c) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.
(d) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.

3. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?
(a) She would rather be peeling potatoes.
(b) She would rather be learning how to fix cars.
(c) She would rather be outside.
(d) She would rather be helping her mother sew.

4. For what reason did Frank throw out the family's television set when Janisse's little sister Kay was a baby?
(a) He thought his wife Lee Ada watched too many soap operas.
(b) He did not want his children to find out about romance and sexuality before he was ready.
(c) He did not want the knowledge of violence to reach his children.
(d) He was angry when he found the children watching cartoons instead of completing their chores.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?

2. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?

3. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?

4. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?

5. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?

(see the answer key)

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