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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Charlie hope to accomplish by placing old shoes beneath plants?
(a) He thought the leather would insulate the plants from contact with the frozen ground.
(b) He said it would inspire the plants to outrun any diseases that threatened their health.
(c) He believed that shoes were good luck for living things.
(d) He hoped that the slowly decomposing leather would leech nitrogen to fertilize the plants.

4. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?
(a) The town's main street was lined with magnolia trees.
(b) The river that flowed through town had been polluted by the nearby sewage treatment plant.
(c) There was a paper mill in town that emitted the smell of rotten eggs.
(d) There was frequent spreading of fertilizer on the crops to keep the soil fertile.

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

6. 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 concrete wall of the garage.
(b) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.
(c) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(d) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.

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

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

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

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

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

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) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.
(b) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(c) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.
(d) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.

13. 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 savior.
(c) A means of possible survival.
(d) A means to extinction.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?

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

3. What prompted Frank to buy out his father Charlie's share of the salvage business?

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

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

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