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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?
(a) They went caroling in a neighborhood across town.
(b) They decorated a tree deep in the forest and exchanged gifts with one another.
(c) They met at a friend's house and watched It's a Wonderful Life on television.
(d) They used headlights from the salvaged cars to make a string of high-powered Christmas lights as decorations for their tree house.

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

3. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?
(a) Playing church.
(b) Chasing each other along the tops of salvaged cars.
(c) Pretending to be paramedics saving car accident victims.
(d) Making believe they were car salespeople.

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?
(a) 85 million.
(b) 65 million.
(c) 35 million.
(d) 105 million.

5. What was the catalyst for the "opening" of Janisse's heart referenced in the chapter title How the Heart Opens?
(a) Her father's healing from his mental illness.
(b) Her discovery of her love for painting.
(c) Her brother's decision to become a minister.
(d) Her fascination with the carnivorous pitcher plant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What job did Janisse's great-grandfather Pun have that she sees as having wreaked havoc on the longleaf pine forests?

3. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?

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

5. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?

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