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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?
2. 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?
3. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?
4. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?
5. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
Short Essay Questions
1. After explaining that "Ninety-eight percent of the presettlement longleaf pine barrents in the southeastern coastal plains were lost by 1986" (16), Janisse writes that she did not know about this loss as a child. However, she states, "But it is a loss that as an adult shadows every step I take" (16). What does she mean?
2. What reasons does Janisse give for God disliking pine plantations?
3. What happened during one of the Ray family's only vacations that highlighted the fact that they were a subject of fascination for others?
4. How does Janisse Ray use her great-grandfather Pun's career progression to show how white-collar jobs can be even more damaging to the environment than can blue-collar jobs?
5. What elements did Frank consider crucial to the business of buying?
6. What descriptions of her homeland does Janisse give in order to support her claim that her "homeland is about as ugly as a place gets" (13)?
7. 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?
8. How does the passage regarding the bank robber Foster Sellers exhibit the theme of identity prevalent throughout the memoir?
9. What example of making something out of nothing does Janisse write about when showing her father Frank's ingenuity in the chapter entitled, "Native Genius"?
10. Janisse said there was only one type of occasion that did not elicit shame from her role as a junkyard owner's daughter. What is the only thing that occurs that does not bring her shame?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the chapter entitled How the Heart Opens, Janisse relates how, upon asking Frank if they could pick some flowers, Frank told her and her siblings, "You know, it's a shame to pick something beautiful from dilapidated surroundings. There needs to be some beauty everywhere." What does this comment demonstrate about Frank's personality, about his role within the family, and about how Frank influenced his daughter's worldview as she grew up?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the structure the author uses to construct Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and discuss what her purpose is for structuring the memoir as she does. What advantages does it give her and how does it align with the messages she is trying to get across to the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the significance of the memoir's title. What does it mean and how does it contain all of the main themes put forth within the whole of the memoir?
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