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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 woodpecker.
(c) A pigeon.
(d) A heron.

2. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?
(a) Runaway school bus.
(b) Zoo.
(c) Chain gang.
(d) Baptism.

3. 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.

4. Though everyone was aware of Frank's predilection toward mental illness, what did everyone, including the police, agree was another possible cause of his first major nervous breakdown?
(a) He suddenly remembered a particularly violent episode involving his father.
(b) His new friend spiked his lunch with LSD.
(c) He had not eaten for several days and it had affected his mental state.
(d) He found out Lee Ada had been unfaithful.

5. 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) One hour.
(c) Ninety minutes.
(d) Thirty minutes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?

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

4. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When Janisse wrote that her father Frank was a "mechanic in the word's truest sense," what did she mean?

2. How is foreshadowing used within Janisse's relation of how she used to love to play teacher with her brothers or even with her dolls?

3. What are some ways in which Janisse shows her parents that she is a tomboy who likes to be outside in nature more than she enjoys any other activities?

4. Why do people call certain parts of the wood of the longleaf pine "fat-lightered"?

5. Besides the fact that he thought it had better prices than other stores, why did Frank shop at Winn-Dixie?

6. How does the passage regarding the bank robber Foster Sellers exhibit the theme of identity prevalent throughout the memoir?

7. Due to their parents' religious beliefs and their resulting family rules, what were some of the practices forbidden to Janisse and her siblings?

8. How does Janisse describe her feelings toward her father when he was mentally unwell?

9. Whose idea was it to spread old shoes around underneath the grapevine and what was the intended purpose of that act?

10. The second sentence of the chapter entitled Timber says, "About the same time, the production of naval stores in North Carolina began to wane and big turpentine producers in North Carolina sashayed into Georgia" 99). What is the effect of the author's choice of the verb "sashayed" and what is her purpose in making that choice?

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