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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?
(a) Longleaf pines and lightning.
(b) Humans and longleaf pines.
(c) Rivers and grasslands.
(d) Swamps and monsoons.

2. What is the maximum rainfall that occurs in Appling County in a given year?
(a) 25 inches.
(b) 48 inches.
(c) 72 inches.
(d) 60 inches.

3. What materials did Frank use in order to build the children a swing set in the backyard?
(a) Car engines.
(b) Car hoods.
(c) Lengths of pipe.
(d) Milk crates.

4. For what practice does the gopher tortoise require open sunny spots within their habitats?
(a) Laying eggs.
(b) Eating.
(c) Drying out their shells.
(d) Absorbing Vitamin D.

5. Janisse references a line of literature that may be the original source of the term 'Cracker': Who wrote the line, "What cracker is this same that deafes our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?"
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Christopher Marlowe.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) John Donne.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Clyo finally succumb to her various maladies?

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

3. 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?

4. With which type of creature was Janisse's maternal grandmother Beulah fascinated?

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

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