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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?
2. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
3. What did Charlie hope to accomplish by placing old shoes beneath plants?
4. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
5. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?
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. When Janisse wrote that her father Frank was a "mechanic in the word's truest sense," what did she mean?
3. Why were the conditions so favorable for Frank's junkyard business to make money?
4. How does Janisse describe her feelings toward her father when he was mentally unwell?
5. How does the Thingfinders Club play into the memoir's message regarding ecology?
6. Besides the fact that he thought it had better prices than other stores, why did Frank shop at Winn-Dixie?
7. What elements did Frank consider crucial to the business of buying?
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 example of making something out of nothing does Janisse write about when showing her father Frank's ingenuity in the chapter entitled, "Native Genius"?
10. Why do people call certain parts of the wood of the longleaf pine "fat-lightered"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the chapter entitled Built By Fire, discussing at least three different literary devices the author uses within the chapter and stating the main message the author is sending to the reader within the chapter.
Essay Topic 2
What is the significance of Janisse Ray's story in the chapter entitled Leaving about the first time she saw the word environmentalism in action? What lessons did she learn that day--about herself and about the world? And what lessons does she hope to teach the reader while relaying her account of this event?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the significance of the memoir's title. What does it mean and how does it contain all of the main themes put forth within the whole of the memoir?
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