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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 job did Janisse's great-grandfather Pun have that she sees as having wreaked havoc on the longleaf pine forests?
(a) Lumberjack.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Surveyor.
(d) Cattle herder.

2. What city is NOT one of the bigger cities closest to Janisse's hometown?
(a) Jacksonville.
(b) Macon.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Savannah.

3. What elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?
(a) Their professions as shepherds required moving to new lands where the sheep could graze.
(b) The border between Scotland and England was often in turmoil due to wars over to whom the territories belonged.
(c) The torrential rains in the area often flooded their homes, so they would move on to higher and drier ground.
(d) Prejudices against them forced others to continually drive them out of the areas in which they had settled.

4. Pun's oft-given piece of advice to his son was, "Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off your heels." How does Janisse feel about this lesson?
(a) She says that everyone in her family appears to have learned it except her, and she wishes she could learn it.
(b) She says that she has tried to live her life by it but has failed.
(c) She says that she does not know what it truly means.
(d) She says that she has never learned it and hopes that she never does.

5. What prompted Frank to buy out his father Charlie's share of the salvage business?
(a) Frank discovers that Charlie has been siphoning money from the business into his own pockets.
(b) Charlie cares only about living paycheck to paycheck, but Frank wants to do more than just survive.
(c) Frank fights too often with Charlie, making the workplace too tense.
(d) Charlie wants to move to Florida to pick oranges for a living.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the catalyst for the "opening" of Janisse's heart referenced in the chapter title How the Heart Opens?

2. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?

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

4. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?

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

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