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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?
(a) Every five years.
(b) Every two years.
(c) Every three months.
(d) Every week.

2. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?
(a) Extinct.
(b) Virtually extinct.
(c) Endangered.
(d) Critically endangered.

3. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?
(a) Plague.
(b) Lockjaw.
(c) Poisoning.
(d) A bad cut.

4. Of the 156 million acres that used to constitute the longleaf pine's southeastern range, how many of those acres were once covered by longleaf pines?
(a) 105 million.
(b) 35 million.
(c) 85 million.
(d) 65 million.

5. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?
(a) She would rather be outside.
(b) She would rather be peeling potatoes.
(c) She would rather be helping her mother sew.
(d) She would rather be learning how to fix cars.

6. Janisse describes her area of southern Georgia as lying below the fall line. What does she say that fall line serves to separate from one another?
(a) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.
(b) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.
(c) The Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.
(d) The Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

7. When Janisse relates that the children did not believe their birth stories, what does she say would have been a more believable story for their parents to have told about her own birth?
(a) That she'd been brought by a stork.
(b) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(c) That she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(d) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.

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

9. At the hands of the tree farmers, the land was laid bare. What simile does Janisse use to describe its bare state?
(a) Bare as a possum's tail.
(b) Bare as a vulture's pate.
(c) Bare as a sand dune.
(d) Bare as a blank sheet of paper.

10. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Augusta, Georgia.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Baxley, Georgia.

11. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?
(a) A Separate Peace.
(b) Ecotopia.
(c) Absalom, Absalom.
(d) A Brave New World.

12. When tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?
(a) Its taproot was unwieldy and it grew slowly.
(b) It did not bring as much money as other species of tree.
(c) It required too much room to grow.
(d) Its seedlings were too expensive.

13. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?
(a) His tendency to talk for hours on end without listening to their replies.
(b) His inability to sleep.
(c) Displays of anger.
(d) Impulsive actions concerning his salvaging business.

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

15. 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 savior.
(d) A means of possible survival.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?

3. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?

4. What job did Janisse's great-grandfather Pun have that she sees as having wreaked havoc on the longleaf pine forests?

5. 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?

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