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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 thrift store.
(c) An insurance office.
(d) A pharmacy.

2. 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 does not know what it truly means.
(b) She says that she has never learned it and hopes that she never does.
(c) She says that she has tried to live her life by it but has failed.
(d) She says that everyone in her family appears to have learned it except her, and she wishes she could learn it.

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

4. 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 robin.
(b) A pigeon.
(c) A heron.
(d) A woodpecker.

5. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1890.

6. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
(a) A jungle gym.
(b) An arbor for a grapevine.
(c) A bathtub frame.
(d) A cart to pull behind the family car.

7. What was the subject of Janisse's recurring daydream she had during church services?
(a) Having a very tiny real baby of her own.
(b) Running off to join the circus.
(c) Being a bank robber.
(d) Living in the forest as a hermit.

8. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?
(a) Inside a big cabbage in the garden.
(b) Beside a huckleberry bush.
(c) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(d) Under a grapevine.

9. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?
(a) She would rather be learning how to fix cars.
(b) She would rather be peeling potatoes.
(c) She would rather be outside.
(d) She would rather be helping her mother sew.

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

11. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?
(a) His tendency to talk for hours on end without listening to their replies.
(b) Displays of anger.
(c) Impulsive actions concerning his salvaging business.
(d) His inability to sleep.

12. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?
(a) Making believe they were car salespeople.
(b) Chasing each other along the tops of salvaged cars.
(c) Playing church.
(d) Pretending to be paramedics saving car accident victims.

13. What prompted Frank to buy out his father Charlie's share of the salvage business?
(a) Frank fights too often with Charlie, making the workplace too tense.
(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) Charlie wants to move to Florida to pick oranges for a living.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Janisse say the source of southern Georgia's majesty and sublimity used to come from before that source was destroyed?

3. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?

4. 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?

5. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?

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