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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-30, Afterword, & Appendices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Janisse when she first saw real snow?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

2. What is the average amount of rainfall in Appling County, Georgia?
(a) 30 inches.
(b) 60 inches.
(c) 50 inches.
(d) 40 inches.

3. After all of their children had grown up, where did Frank and Lee Ada buy a piece of property?
(a) Telfair County.
(b) Mason County.
(c) Jackson County.
(d) Mayfair County.

4. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.
(b) In a big cabbage in the garden.
(c) Under a grapevine.
(d) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.

5. What reason does Janisse give for the indigo snake's dwindling numbers?
(a) They are docile, so they are over-collected as pets.
(b) Their skin is frequently used to make cowboy boots.
(c) They like to sun themselves on flat, open spaces like roads, so they are frequently run over by cars.
(d) The insects they like to eat have dwindled in number due to the shrinking numbers of red-cockaded woodpeckers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?

2. When Milton told a story about catching an eight-foot-long indigo snake and it getting loose in his family's home, where did he say they eventually found it?

3. What is the maximum rainfall that occurs in Appling County in a given year?

4. Which of the following is NOT a list included in the Appendixes at the back of the memoir that focuses on the uplands in the southern coastal plain?

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

(see the answer key)

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