Ecology of a Cracker Childhood pp. 1-64. "Child of Pine"- "Iron Man"

Question 1

Once car in the junkyard was rumored to be bank robber's that was on the most wanted list

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True

Question 2

"I carry that landscape like an ache" is a

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simile

Question 3

What is the setting?

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Baxley, GA 1960s

Question 4

Charlie took $15 to leave town for good toward the orange groves of Florida from who?

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His daughter, Cleo

Question 5

"The landscape that I was born to, that owns my body: the uplands and lowlands of southern GA."

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personification

Question 6

Grandpa Charlie was sent to a mental hospital in what Georgia town?

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Millidgeville

Question 7

Charlie loved to hear himself talk...he would spin yarns of greater and greater incredulity.

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repetition

Question 8

"...and anything that could be called a city was a hemisphere away." This is a

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hyperbole

Question 9

Charlie hunted coons and would return by day with his bounty. This makes him seem like a

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pirate

Question 10

When Janisse filled out forms, she didn't put "junk man" she put

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salesman

Question 11

The cemetery in the end of chapter one is

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a symbol of her ancestors and heritage

Question 12

It was said that Grandpa would not start a fight, but he would end it. This is

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Indirect characterization

Question 13

"In a longleaf forest, miles of trees forever fade into a brilliant salmon sunset."

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alliteration

Question 14

The place was broadly beautiful...

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alliteration

Question 15

...embracing the past has been a long, slow lesson in self-esteem and patriotism. Patriotism

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means love of one's homeland

Question 16

Where did they get the chalk to use whey they played "Classroom" in the junkyard?

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They filched it from school

Question 17

Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Clyo owned and operated what kind of business?

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a restaurant

Question 18

"A couple of million years ago a pine fell in love with a place that belonged to lightning."

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personification

Question 19

Grandpa Charlie could tickle fish. This is also called...

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both noodling and cooning

Question 20

Charlie was such a strong fighter he even beat up a...

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boxer

Question 21

What is the kind of pine explored in this book?

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Longleaf Pine

Question 22

What car did she use as her chalkboard in the junkyard when they pretended to play school?

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a '50 Nash

Question 23

Why did mom tie jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes?

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she was a curious child

Question 24

As kids, what was the highlight of their week?

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going into town on Saturday afternoons

Question 25

Daddy collected hills of aluminum cans because he intended to roof the house with them

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True

Question 26

Sometimes people would break into the junkyard at night

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true

Question 27

"When the sun came up, it would hold it's breath..." is

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personification

Question 28

The second born

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Janisse

Question 29

What was Janisse's paternal (dad's side) grandfather's name?

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Charlie

Question 30

"Lockjaw might clamp your mouth shut like a beaver trap" is a

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simile

Question 31

"The house's back steps grumbled..." This is

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personification

Question 32

Of what use to humanity is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt? Janisse thought this

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about her Grandad, Charlie

Question 33

Sometimes the kids would pretend to Baptize each other.

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True

Question 34

"I was born from people who were born from people" is

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repetition

Question 35

"The catfish were as whiskered as a circus trainer..."

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simile

Question 36

This illness most strongly occurred in the men of Janisse's family. It took her own father.

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mental illness

Question 37

Fitzgerald, GA used to have an operational Coca-Cola bottling plant.

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True

Question 38

On what did the Ray's live?

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junkyard

Question 39

When she went away to college, Janisse tried to lose her "Southerness" and her accent.

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True

Question 40

Who nick-named himself "Iron Man"?

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Charlie Ray

Question 41

Who is the protagonist?

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Janisse Ray

Question 42

Janisse would rather sit in a certain pine tree she loved than play piano.

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true

Question 43

Who was a poor provider of her family and would leave a sack of Irish potatoes only for weeks

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Grandpa Charlie

Question 44

Janisse would play school with her brothers in the junkyard

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true

Question 45

Charlie fought a man named Isom Copeland because Isom accused him of

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stealing his whiskey

Question 46

"The tree would shiver..." is

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personifcation

Question 47

Almost every night, as a child, Janisse wet the bed.

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True

Question 48

"Lightning tore clouds open lie paper bags." This is a

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simile

Question 49

"Needles from the pine had fallen about, like a woman's long brown hairs."

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simile

Question 50

"The rivers are muddy, wide and flat, like somebody's feet."

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simile

Question 51

One of Janisse's first boyfriends was a Ph.D.

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botanist

Question 52

"The land is flat as a book" is a

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simile

Question 53

Janisse's daddy had bought his sheep

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to keep the weeds down and the snakes away

Question 54

Daddy forced Janisse to take piano lessons for a while, but she hated it and begged to quit.

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true

Question 55

What really makes the difference between the words "scavenger" and "spendthrift"?

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the connotation

Question 56

Dad was a spendthrift. This meant he was thrifty and frugal.

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True

Question 57

a topography map shows

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contours of hills, rivers, and other land formations

Question 58

20' x 26' , white, clapboard structure that set in the middle of ten brushy acres....

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Janisse's house

Question 59

sister was found in a cabbage, brother in a grapevine, other bro in a huckleberry bush. These

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were what the kids were told how they were born

Question 60

The kids asked if Grandpa had a girlfriend. He said he did and called some lady!

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true

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood pp. 1-64. "Child of Pine"- "Iron Man"

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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood pp. 1-64. "Child of Pine"- "Iron Man"

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