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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 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) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.
(b) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed 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) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.

2. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?
(a) The willow tree where she experienced her first kiss.
(b) The swath of huckleberry bushes deep in the forest behind her childhood home.
(c) The mouth of the Altamaha River.
(d) Her grandmother's and grandfather's graves in the cemetery.

3. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?
(a) His tendency to talk for hours on end without listening to their replies.
(b) His inability to sleep.
(c) Impulsive actions concerning his salvaging business.
(d) Displays of anger.

4. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?
(a) They waited for the Bookmobile to make a stop in town and spent hours inside the van reading forbidden titles.
(b) They sneaked them home from the library within their clothes and sandwiched them between acceptable volumes.
(c) They borrowed them from friends and read them only in the junkyard when their father was not around.
(d) They bought them from garage sales and sneaked them home in their backpacks.

5. 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 lay in the yard for two days, refusing to get up.
(b) Frank cooked a rat and prepared to eat it for dinner.
(c) Frank walked into town while naked.
(d) 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?

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