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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 her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
(a) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.
(b) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.
(c) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.
(d) Pretend to be both teacher and student.

2. 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) An insurance office.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A thrift store.

3. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?
(a) Windows.
(b) Copper wire.
(c) Radiators.
(d) Engines.

4. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?
(a) Pretending to be paramedics saving car accident victims.
(b) Playing church.
(c) Chasing each other along the tops of salvaged cars.
(d) Making believe they were car salespeople.

5. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?
(a) He was a local mortician and his hearse was in the family junkyard.
(b) He was a local veterinarian and his van was in the family junkyard.
(c) He was a local bank robber and his old car was in the family junkyard.
(d) He was a local doctor and his old ambulance was in the family junkyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?

2. 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?

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

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

5. Of the 156 million acres that used to constitute the longleaf pine's southeastern range, how many of those acres were once covered by longleaf pines?

(see the answer key)

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