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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 of distracting the masses from the real destruction.
(b) A means to extinction.
(c) A means of possible survival.
(d) A savior.

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

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

4. 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 waited until Janisse's father got home and sent him to find Janisse.
(b) She called the sheriff to come search for Janisse among the junk.
(c) She tied jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes.
(d) She lured her with the promise of peaches.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Which of the following is an element of the dialect known as "Cracker speech"?
(a) Dangling participles.
(b) Ending sentences with prepositions.
(c) Widespread use of the double negative.
(d) The drawing out of vowel sounds.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?

2. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?

3. 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?

4. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?

5. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?

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