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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(b) That she'd been brought by a stork.
(c) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(d) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.

2. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?
(a) At least three times a week.
(b) Almost every summer afternoon.
(c) Rarely.
(d) About once a month.

3. In what year was Janisse born?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1960.

4. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?
(a) 25.
(b) 18.
(c) 21.
(d) 16.

5. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?
(a) 300 years old.
(b) 1000 years old.
(c) 200 years old.
(d) 500 years old.

6. 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?
(a) Raking the leaves.
(b) Putting out the rain barrels.
(c) Bringing in the laundry.
(d) Rounding up the animals.

7. For what reason did Frank throw out the family's television set when Janisse's little sister Kay was a baby?
(a) He did not want the knowledge of violence to reach his children.
(b) He thought his wife Lee Ada watched too many soap operas.
(c) He was angry when he found the children watching cartoons instead of completing their chores.
(d) He did not want his children to find out about romance and sexuality before he was ready.

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

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

10. What was the catalyst for the "opening" of Janisse's heart referenced in the chapter title How the Heart Opens?
(a) Her fascination with the carnivorous pitcher plant.
(b) Her discovery of her love for painting.
(c) Her father's healing from his mental illness.
(d) Her brother's decision to become a minister.

11. What prompted Frank to buy out his father Charlie's share of the salvage business?
(a) Charlie cares only about living paycheck to paycheck, but Frank wants to do more than just survive.
(b) Frank fights too often with Charlie, making the workplace too tense.
(c) Frank discovers that Charlie has been siphoning money from the business into his own pockets.
(d) Charlie wants to move to Florida to pick oranges for a living.

12. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1930.

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 inability to sleep.
(b) Displays of anger.
(c) Impulsive actions concerning his salvaging business.
(d) His tendency to talk for hours on end without listening to their replies.

14. 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.

15. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?
(a) He was a local doctor and his old ambulance was in the family junkyard.
(b) He was a local veterinarian and his van was in the family junkyard.
(c) He was a local bank robber and his old car was in the family junkyard.
(d) He was a local mortician and his hearse was in the family junkyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What expensive item did Frank buy for the household in order to foster his childrens' interest in knowledge and learning?

2. What did Charlie hope to accomplish by placing old shoes beneath plants?

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. When tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?

5. 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?

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