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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction & Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(b) That she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(c) That she'd been brought by a stork.
(d) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.

2. What number child is Janisse within her family?
(a) Fourth-born.
(b) First-born.
(c) Second-born.
(d) Third-born.

3. What did the children call their club whose purpose was to search the salvaged cars for valuable items?
(a) The Thingfinders Club.
(b) The Treasure Hunters.
(c) The Oddfellows.
(d) The Salvage Crew.

4. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?
(a) A Separate Peace.
(b) A Brave New World.
(c) Absalom, Absalom.
(d) Ecotopia.

5. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?
(a) She tied jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes.
(b) She called the sheriff to come search for Janisse among the junk.
(c) She lured her with the promise of peaches.
(d) She waited until Janisse's father got home and sent him to find Janisse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?

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

3. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?

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

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

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