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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is NOT one of the bigger cities closest to Janisse's hometown?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Jacksonville.
(d) Macon.

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

3. What breed was the dog that Frank treated with painkillers and saved after it had been hit by a car on the highway?
(a) Dachshund.
(b) Golden Retriever.
(c) Beagle.
(d) Collie.

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

5. 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) Christopher Marlowe.
(b) John Donne.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) William Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Janisse's great-grandfather Pun have that she sees as having wreaked havoc on the longleaf pine forests?

2. What was the subject of Janisse's recurring daydream she had during church services?

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

4. How many acres did Janisse's family's land take up, including the family home and her father Frank's junkyard?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect on the reader when in the chapter entitled Junkyard, Janisse writes, "I was six the year mental illness stole my father," (77) and how does the author create that effect?

2. Besides the fact that he thought it had better prices than other stores, why did Frank shop at Winn-Dixie?

3. Why do people call certain parts of the wood of the longleaf pine "fat-lightered"?

4. How does the passage regarding the bank robber Foster Sellers exhibit the theme of identity prevalent throughout the memoir?

5. How does the Thingfinders Club play into the memoir's message regarding ecology?

6. What example of making something out of nothing does Janisse write about when showing her father Frank's ingenuity in the chapter entitled, "Native Genius"?

7. Due to their parents' religious beliefs and their resulting family rules, what were some of the practices forbidden to Janisse and her siblings?

8. On page 79, Janisse includes the text of a letter her father Frank wrote to her. In the letter, Frank wrote that he was thankful for his mental illness and that it had taught him seven lessons. What were three of those lessons he said mental illness had taught him?

9. What reasons does Janisse give for God disliking pine plantations?

10. What are some ways in which Janisse shows her parents that she is a tomboy who likes to be outside in nature more than she enjoys any other activities?

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