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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?
(a) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.
(b) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.
(c) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(d) The concrete wall of the garage.

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

3. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?
(a) Mason County.
(b) Fulton County.
(c) Grasslands County.
(d) Appling County.

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

5. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?
(a) They decorated a tree deep in the forest and exchanged gifts with one another.
(b) They used headlights from the salvaged cars to make a string of high-powered Christmas lights as decorations for their tree house.
(c) They met at a friend's house and watched It's a Wonderful Life on television.
(d) They went caroling in a neighborhood across town.

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

7. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.
(b) In a big cabbage in the garden.
(c) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(d) Under a grapevine.

8. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?
(a) They were the only ones who did not speak in tongues.
(b) They were the only family with fewer than eight children.
(c) They celebrated Christmas.
(d) They were the only white members of the congregation.

9. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?
(a) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(b) Beside a huckleberry bush.
(c) Under a grapevine.
(d) Inside a big cabbage in the garden.

10. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?
(a) Because she knew she could come back out after dinner and play by herself.
(b) Because she knew her brothers liked to clean the board off with the hose.
(c) Because she liked to start off the next lesson by punishing her brothers for some imagined misbehavior by making them clean the chalkboard.
(d) Because she knew a thunderstorm would come soon and wash the board clean.

11. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?
(a) An insurance office.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A thrift store.
(d) A pharmacy.

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

13. 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 sand dune.
(b) Bare as a blank sheet of paper.
(c) Bare as a possum's tail.
(d) Bare as a vulture's pate.

14. How many acres did Janisse's family's land take up, including the family home and her father Frank's junkyard?
(a) 10 acres.
(b) 4 acres.
(c) 20 acres.
(d) 15 acres.

15. What type of bird was Clyde, the bird that Frank nursed back to health after finding it on the side of the highway with a broken leg and wing?
(a) A heron.
(b) A robin.
(c) A pigeon.
(d) A woodpecker.

Short Answer 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?

2. For what reason did Frank throw out the family's television set when Janisse's little sister Kay was a baby?

3. 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?

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

5. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?

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