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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?
(a) Zoo.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Chain gang.
(d) Runaway school bus.

3. When tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?
(a) It required too much room to grow.
(b) Its seedlings were too expensive.
(c) It did not bring as much money as other species of tree.
(d) Its taproot was unwieldy and it grew slowly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Janisse say the source of southern Georgia's majesty and sublimity used to come from before that source was destroyed?

2. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?

3. What event did Frank attend on the day he had his first major nervous breakdown during Janisse's childhood?

4. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?

5. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?

(see the answer key)

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