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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) The drawing out of vowel sounds.
(c) Dangling participles.
(d) Widespread use of the double negative.

2. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?
(a) Dexterity and compassion.
(b) Intelligence and kindness.
(c) Understanding and order.
(d) Patience and doggedness.

3. 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 peeling potatoes.
(b) She would rather be helping her mother sew.
(c) She would rather be learning how to fix cars.
(d) She would rather be outside.

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

5. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?
(a) They sneaked them home from the library within their clothes and sandwiched them between acceptable volumes.
(b) They borrowed them from friends and read them only in the junkyard when their father was not around.
(c) They bought them from garage sales and sneaked them home in their backpacks.
(d) They waited for the Bookmobile to make a stop in town and spent hours inside the van reading forbidden titles.

6. 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.

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

8. At the hands of the tree farmers, the land was laid bare. What simile does Janisse use to describe its bare state?
(a) Bare as a blank sheet of paper.
(b) Bare as a sand dune.
(c) Bare as a possum's tail.
(d) Bare as a vulture's pate.

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

10. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?
(a) There was frequent spreading of fertilizer on the crops to keep the soil fertile.
(b) There was a paper mill in town that emitted the smell of rotten eggs.
(c) The river that flowed through town had been polluted by the nearby sewage treatment plant.
(d) The town's main street was lined with magnolia trees.

11. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?
(a) Machines.
(b) Goals.
(c) Plans.
(d) Memories.

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

13. 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) Putting out the rain barrels.
(d) Raking the leaves.

14. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.
(b) In a big cabbage in the garden.
(c) Under a grapevine.
(d) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.

15. 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?
(a) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.
(b) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.
(c) The Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.
(d) The Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?

2. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?

3. What was the catalyst for the "opening" of Janisse's heart referenced in the chapter title How the Heart Opens?

4. What city is NOT one of the bigger cities closest to Janisse's hometown?

5. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?

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