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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is an element of the dialect known as "Cracker speech"?
(a) Ending sentences with prepositions.
(b) Dangling participles.
(c) The drawing out of vowel sounds.
(d) Widespread use of the double negative.

2. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?
(a) How to find huckleberry patches and how to make a raft.
(b) How to fight and how to fish.
(c) How to play horseshoes and how to wrestle.
(d) How to play the piano and how to tie a good knot.

3. When tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?
(a) Its seedlings were too expensive.
(b) It required too much room to grow.
(c) It did not bring as much money as other species of tree.
(d) Its taproot was unwieldy and it grew slowly.

4. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?
(a) They used headlights from the salvaged cars to make a string of high-powered Christmas lights as decorations for their tree house.
(b) They met at a friend's house and watched It's a Wonderful Life on television.
(c) They went caroling in a neighborhood across town.
(d) They decorated a tree deep in the forest and exchanged gifts with one another.

5. What did Frank use to beat Janisse and her brothers after they stood by while a neighbor boy killed a snapping turtle?
(a) A ruler.
(b) A belt.
(c) A wooden spoon.
(d) A wooden paddle.

6. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A pharmacy.
(c) A thrift store.
(d) An insurance office.

7. How long did it take the family to travel to the nearest Apostolic Church, which was in the town of Brunswick?
(a) Ninety minutes.
(b) One hour.
(c) Thirty minutes.
(d) Two hours.

8. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?
(a) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.
(b) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.
(c) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(d) The concrete wall of the garage.

9. What number child is Janisse within her family?
(a) Third-born.
(b) First-born.
(c) Fourth-born.
(d) Second-born.

10. What prompted Frank to buy out his father Charlie's share of the salvage business?
(a) Charlie wants to move to Florida to pick oranges for a living.
(b) Charlie cares only about living paycheck to paycheck, but Frank wants to do more than just survive.
(c) Frank discovers that Charlie has been siphoning money from the business into his own pockets.
(d) Frank fights too often with Charlie, making the workplace too tense.

11. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?
(a) 1000 years old.
(b) 500 years old.
(c) 300 years old.
(d) 200 years old.

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

13. 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) Swamps and monsoons.
(c) Rivers and grasslands.
(d) Humans and longleaf pines.

14. What does the term bricoleur mean?
(a) A term given to folk recyclers, those who find purposes for castaway objects in which others cannot see a value.
(b) A term given to a bread-maker who uses only natural ingredients.
(c) A term given to someone who cannot see a situation from another's perspective.
(d) A term given to a manipulative person.

15. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?
(a) Cookins.
(b) Cookie.
(c) Cooks.
(d) Cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the 156 million acres that used to constitute the longleaf pine's southeastern range, how many of those acres were once covered by longleaf pines?

2. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?

3. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?

4. What was the subject of Janisse's recurring daydream she had during church services?

5. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?

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