Ecology of a Cracker Childhood Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Janisse Ray
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Janisse Ray
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?
(a) The town's main street was lined with magnolia trees.
(b) There was frequent spreading of fertilizer on the crops to keep the soil fertile.
(c) There was a paper mill in town that emitted the smell of rotten eggs.
(d) The river that flowed through town had been polluted by the nearby sewage treatment plant.

2. What job did Janisse's great-grandfather Pun have that she sees as having wreaked havoc on the longleaf pine forests?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Cattle herder.
(c) Surveyor.
(d) Lumberjack.

3. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?
(a) Grasslands County.
(b) Fulton County.
(c) Mason County.
(d) Appling County.

4. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?
(a) Her grandmother's and grandfather's graves in the cemetery.
(b) The mouth of the Altamaha River.
(c) The willow tree where she experienced her first kiss.
(d) The swath of huckleberry bushes deep in the forest behind her childhood home.

5. Though Frank did not graduate from high school, Janisse cited two other forms of education that Frank sought out and received. What were those two sources of education?
(a) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.
(b) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.
(c) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(d) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Janisse describes her area of southern Georgia as lying below the fall line. What does she say that fall line serves to separate from one another?

2. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?

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

4. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?

5. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?

(see the answer key)

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