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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
(b) The Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.
(c) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.
(d) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.

2. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?
(a) Rivers and grasslands.
(b) Longleaf pines and lightning.
(c) Humans and longleaf pines.
(d) Swamps and monsoons.

3. 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?"
(a) Christopher Marlowe.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) John Donne.

4. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?
(a) She would rather be peeling potatoes.
(b) She would rather be outside.
(c) She would rather be learning how to fix cars.
(d) She would rather be helping her mother sew.

5. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?
(a) A pharmacy.
(b) A thrift store.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) An insurance office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What expensive item did Frank buy for the household in order to foster his childrens' interest in knowledge and learning?

2. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?

3. When Janisse relates that the children did not believe their birth stories, what does she say would have been a more believable story for their parents to have told about her own birth?

4. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?

5. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?

(see the answer key)

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