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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though she did not speak to Charlie for 25 years after they split up, what did Clyo do that showed she still cared about him?
(a) When Charlie stopped in to the Greasy Spoon Cafe, she always sent him a little note on his napkin when she sent his food out from the kitchen.
(b) When Charlie came to visit their grown son across the street, she always fixed him a plate of food and sent another of their children over to give it to him.
(c) When Charlie had bad bouts of arthritis, Clyo always made up a batch of her special salve and sent it to Charlie.
(d) When Charlie came to visit the children still living in Clyo's home, Clyo always left the house but left Charlie one of their love notes from the past.

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

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

4. What is the maximum rainfall that occurs in Appling County in a given year?
(a) 72 inches.
(b) 60 inches.
(c) 25 inches.
(d) 48 inches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?

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

3. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?

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

5. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?

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