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

2. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?
(a) Poisoning.
(b) A bad cut.
(c) Lockjaw.
(d) Plague.

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

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

5. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?
(a) He was a local veterinarian and his van was in the family junkyard.
(b) He was a local bank robber and his old car was in the family junkyard.
(c) He was a local doctor and his old ambulance was in the family junkyard.
(d) He was a local mortician and his hearse was in the family junkyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What expensive item did Frank buy for the household in order to foster his childrens' interest in knowledge and learning?

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

3. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?

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

5. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Janisse look forward so much to the days when Frank shopped at Winn-Dixie?

2. After explaining that "Ninety-eight percent of the presettlement longleaf pine barrents in the southeastern coastal plains were lost by 1986" (16), Janisse writes that she did not know about this loss as a child. However, she states, "But it is a loss that as an adult shadows every step I take" (16). What does she mean?

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

4. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

9. When Janisse wrote that her father Frank was a "mechanic in the word's truest sense," what did she mean?

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

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