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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the catalyst for the "opening" of Janisse's heart referenced in the chapter title How the Heart Opens?
(a) Her father's healing from his mental illness.
(b) Her brother's decision to become a minister.
(c) Her discovery of her love for painting.
(d) Her fascination with the carnivorous pitcher plant.

2. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?
(a) He wanted to move the family to a different county.
(b) He did not know how he could make enough money as a preacher in order to support his large family.
(c) He felt that God had not officially or personally called him to preach.
(d) He did not think his growing congregation was devoted enough to their faith.

3. 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 a manipulative person.
(d) A term given to someone who cannot see a situation from another's perspective.

4. In what year was Janisse born?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1960.

5. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
(a) Pretend to be both teacher and student.
(b) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.
(c) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.
(d) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.

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. 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) The swath of huckleberry bushes deep in the forest behind her childhood home.
(c) The willow tree where she experienced her first kiss.
(d) Her grandmother's and grandfather's graves in the cemetery.

8. What chore done before a thunderstorm does Janisse use in the Introduction as a metaphor for the Georgian people seeing everything coming before it happens?
(a) Bringing in the laundry.
(b) Rounding up the animals.
(c) Raking the leaves.
(d) Putting out the rain barrels.

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

10. What does Janisse say the source of southern Georgia's majesty and sublimity used to come from before that source was destroyed?
(a) The wide diversity of native bird species.
(b) The clear, unpolluted skies.
(c) Many clear springs, rivers, and waterfalls.
(d) The longleaf pine forests.

11. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?
(a) Rarely.
(b) About once a month.
(c) Almost every summer afternoon.
(d) At least three times a week.

12. What type of bird was Clyde, the bird that Frank nursed back to health after finding it on the side of the highway with a broken leg and wing?
(a) A pigeon.
(b) A robin.
(c) A heron.
(d) A woodpecker.

13. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?
(a) She lured her with the promise of peaches.
(b) She waited until Janisse's father got home and sent him to find Janisse.
(c) She called the sheriff to come search for Janisse among the junk.
(d) She tied jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes.

14. Pun's oft-given piece of advice to his son was, "Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off your heels." How does Janisse feel about this lesson?
(a) She says that she has tried to live her life by it but has failed.
(b) She says that everyone in her family appears to have learned it except her, and she wishes she could learn it.
(c) She says that she has never learned it and hopes that she never does.
(d) She says that she does not know what it truly means.

15. When Janisse relates that the children did not believe their birth stories, what does she say would have been a more believable story for their parents to have told about her own birth?
(a) That she'd been brought by a stork.
(b) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(c) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.
(d) That she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acres did Janisse's family's land take up, including the family home and her father Frank's junkyard?

2. What did Charlie hope to accomplish by placing old shoes beneath plants?

3. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?

4. What did the children call their club whose purpose was to search the salvaged cars for valuable items?

5. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?

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