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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 elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?
(a) Their professions as shepherds required moving to new lands where the sheep could graze.
(b) The border between Scotland and England was often in turmoil due to wars over to whom the territories belonged.
(c) Prejudices against them forced others to continually drive them out of the areas in which they had settled.
(d) The torrential rains in the area often flooded their homes, so they would move on to higher and drier ground.

2. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?
(a) The mouth of the Altamaha River.
(b) The willow tree where she experienced her first kiss.
(c) Her grandmother's and grandfather's graves in the cemetery.
(d) The swath of huckleberry bushes deep in the forest behind her childhood home.

3. What does the term bricoleur mean?
(a) A term given to someone who cannot see a situation from another's perspective.
(b) A term given to a manipulative person.
(c) A term given to a bread-maker who uses only natural ingredients.
(d) A term given to folk recyclers, those who find purposes for castaway objects in which others cannot see a value.

4. When the author writes that Frank would often help "a family like the Joads" by feeding them or finding candy for their children when they stopped in to get a part to fix their broken-down car, what novel is she referencing?
(a) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
(b) The Stranger by Albert Camus.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
(d) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

5. For what practice does the gopher tortoise require open sunny spots within their habitats?
(a) Absorbing Vitamin D.
(b) Drying out their shells.
(c) Laying eggs.
(d) Eating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do conscientious timber harvesters wait until the ground is dry to cut down certain trees they have pre-selected to be cut?

2. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?

3. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?

4. Who fell overboard when the family visited the houseboat of another local family, prompting Frank to save the person?

5. Though she patiently and valiantly fought to bring Frank back to mental health, what happened to finally convince Lee Ada that Frank needed to check in to a mental hospital?

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