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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What expensive item did Frank buy for the household in order to foster his childrens' interest in knowledge and learning?
(a) A microscope kit.
(b) A set of encyclopedias.
(c) A marble globe.
(d) A gold-encased compass.

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?
(a) Putting out the rain barrels.
(b) Rounding up the animals.
(c) Bringing in the laundry.
(d) Raking the leaves.

3. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?
(a) By telling him that the children would be better off without him.
(b) By giving him all the money she had.
(c) By calling the police and threatening to have him recommitted.
(d) By telling him that he could live in the old van down by the river.

4. 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) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(c) Under a grapevine.
(d) In a big cabbage in the garden.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?

2. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?

3. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?

4. In what year was Janisse born?

5. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?

(see the answer key)

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