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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What number child is Janisse within her family?
(a) Third-born.
(b) First-born.
(c) Fourth-born.
(d) Second-born.

2. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?
(a) She would rather be learning how to fix cars.
(b) She would rather be helping her mother sew.
(c) She would rather be outside.
(d) She would rather be peeling potatoes.

3. 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 a thunderstorm would come soon and wash the board clean.
(b) Because she knew she could come back out after dinner and play by herself.
(c) Because she knew her brothers liked to clean the board off with the hose.
(d) Because she liked to start off the next lesson by punishing her brothers for some imagined misbehavior by making them clean the chalkboard.

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

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

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

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

8. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
(a) A cart to pull behind the family car.
(b) A jungle gym.
(c) A bathtub frame.
(d) An arbor for a grapevine.

9. Janisse references a line of literature that may be the original source of the term 'Cracker': Who wrote the line, "What cracker is this same that deafes our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?"
(a) John Donne.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) Christopher Marlowe.

10. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?
(a) Pretending to be paramedics saving car accident victims.
(b) Chasing each other along the tops of salvaged cars.
(c) Playing church.
(d) Making believe they were car salespeople.

11. 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) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.
(c) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.
(d) Pretend to be both teacher and student.

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

13. What was the subject of Janisse's recurring daydream she had during church services?
(a) Being a bank robber.
(b) Living in the forest as a hermit.
(c) Having a very tiny real baby of her own.
(d) Running off to join the circus.

14. Though everyone was aware of Frank's predilection toward mental illness, what did everyone, including the police, agree was another possible cause of his first major nervous breakdown?
(a) He suddenly remembered a particularly violent episode involving his father.
(b) His new friend spiked his lunch with LSD.
(c) He had not eaten for several days and it had affected his mental state.
(d) He found out Lee Ada had been unfaithful.

15. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?
(a) Impulsive actions concerning his salvaging business.
(b) His inability to sleep.
(c) Displays of anger.
(d) His tendency to talk for hours on end without listening to their replies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the children call their club whose purpose was to search the salvaged cars for valuable items?

2. 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?

3. How long did it take the family to travel to the nearest Apostolic Church, which was in the town of Brunswick?

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

5. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?

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