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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. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?
(a) Grasslands County.
(b) Appling County.
(c) Fulton County.
(d) Mason County.

2. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?
(a) Inside a big cabbage in the garden.
(b) Under a grapevine.
(c) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(d) Beside a huckleberry bush.

3. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?
(a) Because she knew a thunderstorm would come soon and wash the board clean.
(b) Because she knew her brothers liked to clean the board off with the hose.
(c) Because she liked to start off the next lesson by punishing her brothers for some imagined misbehavior by making them clean the chalkboard.
(d) Because she knew she could come back out after dinner and play by herself.

4. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?
(a) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(b) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.
(c) The concrete wall of the garage.
(d) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.

5. How many acres did Janisse's family's land take up, including the family home and her father Frank's junkyard?
(a) 4 acres.
(b) 10 acres.
(c) 20 acres.
(d) 15 acres.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the children call their club whose purpose was to search the salvaged cars for valuable items?

2. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?

3. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?

4. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?

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?

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