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

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

3. What did the children call their club whose purpose was to search the salvaged cars for valuable items?
(a) The Treasure Hunters.
(b) The Thingfinders Club.
(c) The Salvage Crew.
(d) The Oddfellows.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What breed was the dog that Frank treated with painkillers and saved after it had been hit by a car on the highway?

2. For what reason did Frank throw out the family's television set when Janisse's little sister Kay was a baby?

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

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

5. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Janisse describe her feelings toward her father when he was mentally unwell?

2. Why were the conditions so favorable for Frank's junkyard business to make money?

3. 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?

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

5. The second sentence of the chapter entitled Timber says, "About the same time, the production of naval stores in North Carolina began to wane and big turpentine producers in North Carolina sashayed into Georgia" 99). What is the effect of the author's choice of the verb "sashayed" and what is her purpose in making that choice?

6. 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?

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. 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)?

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

10. What is the author's purpose in relating the fact that her parents told their children false stories about their births?

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