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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-30, Afterword, & Appendices.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The author writes that although the families in her area would have defended the land to the death, they lacked three things that would have allowed them to care about the actual health of its natural communities. What were those three things?
(a) Time, understanding, and leisure.
(b) Means, education, and ease.
(c) Money, space, and time.
(d) Freedom, money, and time.
2. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
(a) A cart to pull behind the family car.
(b) A jungle gym.
(c) A bathtub frame.
(d) An arbor for a grapevine.
3. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?
(a) Cooks.
(b) Cook.
(c) Cookins.
(d) Cookie.
4. 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) Bringing in the laundry.
(c) Putting out the rain barrels.
(d) Rounding up the animals.
5. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?
(a) Beside a huckleberry bush.
(b) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(c) Inside a big cabbage in the garden.
(d) Under a grapevine.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?
2. What type of bird was Clyde, the bird that Frank nursed back to health after finding it on the side of the highway with a broken leg and wing?
3. Why are trees rare on savannas?
4. Janisse insists that she could never cook, telling a story about what happened the scant two times she tried to bake cookies. What happened each time?
5. What job did Janisse's great-grandfather Pun have that she sees as having wreaked havoc on the longleaf pine forests?
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