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

2. 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) 7,500.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 4,500.

3. In what course did Janisse meet her mountain woman friend?
(a) Earth science.
(b) Physics.
(c) Field botany.
(d) Marine biology.

4. 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) As a way to find herself.
(b) As a means of experimentation.
(c) Because she just did what her friends did.
(d) As a form of healing and survival.

5. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
(a) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.
(b) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.
(c) Pretend to be both teacher and student.
(d) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?

2. What is the main practice of gopher tortoises that helps other types of forest animals to survive?

3. 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?"

4. What forbidden activity do Janisse and her siblings get to do when they are at Beulah's house?

5. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?

(see the answer key)

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