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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. 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.

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

3. How many acres did Janisse's family's land take up, including the family home and her father Frank's junkyard?
(a) 20 acres.
(b) 4 acres.
(c) 15 acres.
(d) 10 acres.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is an element of the dialect known as "Cracker speech"?

2. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?

3. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Janisse said there was only one type of occasion that did not elicit shame from her role as a junkyard owner's daughter. What is the only thing that occurs that does not bring her shame?

3. What happened during one of the Ray family's only vacations that highlighted the fact that they were a subject of fascination for others?

4. How is foreshadowing used within Janisse's relation of how she used to love to play teacher with her brothers or even with her dolls?

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

6. How does Janisse Ray use her great-grandfather Pun's career progression to show how white-collar jobs can be even more damaging to the environment than can blue-collar jobs?

7. What descriptions of her homeland does Janisse give in order to support her claim that her "homeland is about as ugly as a place gets" (13)?

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

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

10. What elements did Frank consider crucial to the business of buying?

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