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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. What elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?
2. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?
3. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?
4. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?
5. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why do people call certain parts of the wood of the longleaf pine "fat-lightered"?
3. 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?
4. 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"?
5. 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?
6. What is the author's purpose in relating the fact that her parents told their children false stories about their births?
7. Besides the fact that he thought it had better prices than other stores, why did Frank shop at Winn-Dixie?
8. Whose idea was it to spread old shoes around underneath the grapevine and what was the intended purpose of that act?
9. 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?
10. What happened during one of the Ray family's only vacations that highlighted the fact that they were a subject of fascination for others?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of scene in which Janisse's grandfather Charlie leads Janisse to his secret copse of huckleberries? How does the author use this event as a metaphor for a particular piece of her worldview and what message does she send to the reader through her relaying of this event?
Essay Topic 2
Despite the dire situations discussed within Janisse Ray's narrative, the theme of hope emerges again and again. Find instances of this theme's appearance throughout the memoir and explain how each instance is used by the author in order to demonstrate the value of hope when trying to solve environmental and social problems.
Essay Topic 3
Explain the structure the author uses to construct Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and discuss what her purpose is for structuring the memoir as she does. What advantages does it give her and how does it align with the messages she is trying to get across to the reader?
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