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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?
(a) 210 years.
(b) 86 years.
(c) 180 years.
(d) 150 years.

2. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?
(a) A bad cut.
(b) Plague.
(c) Poisoning.
(d) Lockjaw.

3. What elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?
(a) The border between Scotland and England was often in turmoil due to wars over to whom the territories belonged.
(b) The torrential rains in the area often flooded their homes, so they would move on to higher and drier ground.
(c) Their professions as shepherds required moving to new lands where the sheep could graze.
(d) Prejudices against them forced others to continually drive them out of the areas in which they had settled.

4. Janisse describes her area of southern Georgia as lying below the fall line. What does she say that fall line serves to separate from one another?
(a) The Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.
(b) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.
(c) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.
(d) The Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

5. What does the term bricoleur mean?
(a) A term given to a bread-maker who uses only natural ingredients.
(b) A term given to folk recyclers, those who find purposes for castaway objects in which others cannot see a value.
(c) A term given to someone who cannot see a situation from another's perspective.
(d) A term given to a manipulative person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city is NOT one of the bigger cities closest to Janisse's hometown?

2. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?

3. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?

4. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?

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

(see the answer key)

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