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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 object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
2. Janisse references a line of literature that may be the original source of the term 'Cracker': Who wrote the line, "What cracker is this same that deafes our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?"
3. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?
4. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?
5. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why were the conditions so favorable for Frank's junkyard business to make money?
2. When Janisse wrote that her father Frank was a "mechanic in the word's truest sense," what did she mean?
3. On page 79, Janisse includes the text of a letter her father Frank wrote to her. In the letter, Frank wrote that he was thankful for his mental illness and that it had taught him seven lessons. What were three of those lessons he said mental illness had taught him?
4. Whose idea was it to spread old shoes around underneath the grapevine and what was the intended purpose of that act?
5. What elements did Frank consider crucial to the business of buying?
6. What is the author's purpose in relating the fact that her parents told their children false stories about their births?
7. How does the Thingfinders Club play into the memoir's message regarding ecology?
8. What is the effect on the reader when in the chapter entitled Junkyard, Janisse writes, "I was six the year mental illness stole my father," (77) and how does the author create that effect?
9. Due to their parents' religious beliefs and their resulting family rules, what were some of the practices forbidden to Janisse and her siblings?
10. Besides the fact that he thought it had better prices than other stores, why did Frank shop at Winn-Dixie?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Despite the dire situations discussed within Janisse Ray's narrative, the theme of hope emerges again and again. Find instances of this theme's appearance throughout the memoir and explain how each instance is used by the author in order to demonstrate the value of hope when trying to solve environmental and social problems.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the scene of Janisse's session of night-rappelling down the cliff. How does she use her story of the event to support the larger themes within her memoir?
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