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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) By telling him that the children would be better off without him.
(b) By giving him all the money she had.
(c) By telling him that he could live in the old van down by the river.
(d) By calling the police and threatening to have him recommitted.

2. 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 brother's decision to become a minister.
(c) Her father's healing from his mental illness.
(d) Her discovery of her love for painting.

3. 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 possum's tail.
(c) Bare as a blank sheet of paper.
(d) Bare as a vulture's pate.

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

5. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?
(a) Plans.
(b) Memories.
(c) Goals.
(d) Machines.

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

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

8. When Janisse's family said grace before each meal, each child in the family was required to say something. What were they required by Frank to say?
(a) Something for which each child is thankful.
(b) An expression of love toward God.
(c) The Lord's Prayer in its entirety.
(d) A memorized Bible verse.

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

10. 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) 65 million.
(b) 85 million.
(c) 105 million.
(d) 35 million.

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

12. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?
(a) They used headlights from the salvaged cars to make a string of high-powered Christmas lights as decorations for their tree house.
(b) They decorated a tree deep in the forest and exchanged gifts with one another.
(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.

13. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?
(a) Patience and doggedness.
(b) Dexterity and compassion.
(c) Intelligence and kindness.
(d) Understanding and order.

14. What prompted Frank to buy out his father Charlie's share of the salvage business?
(a) Charlie wants to move to Florida to pick oranges for a living.
(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 cares only about living paycheck to paycheck, but Frank wants to do more than just survive.

15. What job did Janisse's great-grandfather Pun have that she sees as having wreaked havoc on the longleaf pine forests?
(a) Cattle herder.
(b) Surveyor.
(c) Lumberjack.
(d) Farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What number child is Janisse within her family?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?

5. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?

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