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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.
(b) Under a grapevine.
(c) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(d) In a big cabbage in the garden.

2. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
(a) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.
(b) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.
(c) Pretend to be both teacher and student.
(d) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.

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

4. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?
(a) 180 years.
(b) 150 years.
(c) 210 years.
(d) 86 years.

5. 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 spoon.
(b) A ruler.
(c) A belt.
(d) A wooden paddle.

6. What event did Frank attend on the day he had his first major nervous breakdown during Janisse's childhood?
(a) A boat show.
(b) A car show.
(c) A gem and rock show.
(d) A gun show.

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

8. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?
(a) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(b) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.
(c) The concrete wall of the garage.
(d) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.

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

10. 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.

11. What does the term bricoleur mean?
(a) A term given to folk recyclers, those who find purposes for castaway objects in which others cannot see a value.
(b) A term given to a manipulative person.
(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.

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 sneaked them home from the library within their clothes and sandwiched them between acceptable volumes.
(c) They bought them from garage sales and sneaked them home in their backpacks.
(d) They borrowed them from friends and read them only in the junkyard when their father was not around.

13. 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) His new friend spiked his lunch with LSD.
(b) He found out Lee Ada had been unfaithful.
(c) He had not eaten for several days and it had affected his mental state.
(d) He suddenly remembered a particularly violent episode involving his father.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Janisse say the source of southern Georgia's majesty and sublimity used to come from before that source was destroyed?

2. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?

3. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?

4. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?

5. 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?

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