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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?
(a) Prejudices against them forced others to continually drive them out of the areas in which they had settled.
(b) Their professions as shepherds required moving to new lands where the sheep could graze.
(c) The border between Scotland and England was often in turmoil due to wars over to whom the territories belonged.
(d) The torrential rains in the area often flooded their homes, so they would move on to higher and drier ground.

2. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?
(a) Absalom, Absalom.
(b) A Separate Peace.
(c) A Brave New World.
(d) Ecotopia.

3. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?
(a) Endangered.
(b) Virtually extinct.
(c) Extinct.
(d) Critically endangered.

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

5. How many acres did Janisse's family's land take up, including the family home and her father Frank's junkyard?
(a) 15 acres.
(b) 10 acres.
(c) 20 acres.
(d) 4 acres.

Short Answer Questions

1. When tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?

2. For what reason did Frank throw out the family's television set when Janisse's little sister Kay was a baby?

3. What did Frank use to beat Janisse and her brothers after they stood by while a neighbor boy killed a snapping turtle?

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

5. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?

(see the answer key)

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