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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. What did Janisse's mother Lee Ada and her sister Kay call Janisse?
(a) Worrywart.
(b) Workhorse.
(c) Tomboy.
(d) Whiner.

2. 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) Their professions as shepherds required moving to new lands where the sheep could graze.
(c) The torrential rains in the area often flooded their homes, so they would move on to higher and drier ground.
(d) The border between Scotland and England was often in turmoil due to wars over to whom the territories belonged.

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

4. In Chapter 10, Timber, Janisse writes that railroads were to pines what railroads were to buffalo. What does she state that railroads were to both pines and buffalo?
(a) A means to extinction.
(b) A means of distracting the masses from the real destruction.
(c) A means of possible survival.
(d) A savior.

5. At the time of the memoir's writing, about many red-cockaded woodpeckers were left in the United States, most of them relegated to Florida?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 4,500.
(d) 7,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far a distance do flatwood salamanders travel each way in order to reach the breeding grounds?

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

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?

4. What sign of distress did Janisse notice when looking at the painted tortoise?

5. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?

(see the answer key)

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