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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is an element of the dialect known as "Cracker speech"?
(a) The drawing out of vowel sounds.
(b) Ending sentences with prepositions.
(c) Widespread use of the double negative.
(d) Dangling participles.

2. What prompted Janisse to write an essay about the rafting trip down the Altamaha?
(a) She had brought Thoreau's Journals along on the trip.
(b) Her father told her that she should.
(c) She did not ever want to forget the details of the trip.
(d) Her mother told her that she should.

3. 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) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(b) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.
(c) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.
(d) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.

4. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?
(a) Appling County.
(b) Mason County.
(c) Fulton County.
(d) Grasslands County.

5. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?
(a) He did not think his growing congregation was devoted enough to their faith.
(b) He felt that God had not officially or personally called him to preach.
(c) He did not know how he could make enough money as a preacher in order to support his large family.
(d) He wanted to move the family to a different county.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Lee Ada do for a time after graduating from high school?

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

4. What was the punishment if Janisse or one of her siblings disobeyed Frank's instructions while they were left alone in the house?

5. When Janisse handled the indigo snake that she and Milton had found, she writes that she handled the snake with care for two reasons. One was that she was precious. What was the other reason?

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