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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. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?
(a) Tammy Faye Baker.
(b) Billy Graham.
(c) Jimmy Swaggart.
(d) Jerry Falwell.

2. In what city was North Georgia College?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Dahlonega.
(c) Macon.
(d) Lexington.

3. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
(a) A jungle gym.
(b) An arbor for a grapevine.
(c) A cart to pull behind the family car.
(d) A bathtub frame.

4. When Janisse and some other students took James Dickey on a hike, what did he do that Janisse had never seen anyone else do before?
(a) Wore a water bladder within his backpack so he could drink as he hiked.
(b) Hiked with a walking stick.
(c) Rolled up his pants to wade in the water.
(d) Wore binoculars for looking at birds.

5. Once Janisse moved away from home to attend college, she "dived recklessly and surely into the world, not because it was a form of rebellion, as people might think, but..." (255). What does she say is the actual reason for her recklessness?
(a) Because she just did what her friends did.
(b) As a form of healing and survival.
(c) As a way to find herself.
(d) As a means of experimentation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the name Lucia mean?

3. Longleaf pines are important to neighboring savannas mostly because of what?

4. The town in which Janisse's college stood was supported by college students and what other form of revenue?

5. Janisse references a line of literature that may be the original source of the term 'Cracker': Who wrote the line, "What cracker is this same that deafes our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?"

(see the answer key)

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