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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?
(a) Cooks.
(b) Cookins.
(c) Cook.
(d) Cookie.

2. 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) His tendency to talk for hours on end without listening to their replies.
(d) Impulsive actions concerning his salvaging business.

3. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?
(a) How to find huckleberry patches and how to make a raft.
(b) How to fight and how to fish.
(c) How to play horseshoes and how to wrestle.
(d) How to play the piano and how to tie a good knot.

4. 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) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.
(c) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(d) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.

5. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?
(a) She tied jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes.
(b) She waited until Janisse's father got home and sent him to find Janisse.
(c) She lured her with the promise of peaches.
(d) She called the sheriff to come search for Janisse among the junk.

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

7. Pun's oft-given piece of advice to his son was, "Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off your heels." How does Janisse feel about this lesson?
(a) She says that everyone in her family appears to have learned it except her, and she wishes she could learn it.
(b) She says that she has never learned it and hopes that she never does.
(c) She says that she has tried to live her life by it but has failed.
(d) She says that she does not know what it truly means.

8. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?
(a) Engines.
(b) Windows.
(c) Radiators.
(d) Copper wire.

9. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?
(a) Swamps and monsoons.
(b) Longleaf pines and lightning.
(c) Humans and longleaf pines.
(d) Rivers and grasslands.

10. What did Frank use to beat Janisse and her brothers after they stood by while a neighbor boy killed a snapping turtle?
(a) A wooden paddle.
(b) A ruler.
(c) A wooden spoon.
(d) A belt.

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

12. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?
(a) They waited for the Bookmobile to make a stop in town and spent hours inside the van reading forbidden titles.
(b) They bought them from garage sales and sneaked them home in their backpacks.
(c) They sneaked them home from the library within their clothes and sandwiched them between acceptable volumes.
(d) They borrowed them from friends and read them only in the junkyard when their father was not around.

13. 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) A restaurant.
(b) An insurance office.
(c) A thrift store.
(d) A pharmacy.

14. What materials did Frank use in order to build the children a swing set in the backyard?
(a) Milk crates.
(b) Car hoods.
(c) Car engines.
(d) Lengths of pipe.

15. 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 Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.
(b) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.
(c) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.
(d) The Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?

2. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?

3. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?

4. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?

5. 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?

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