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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. What chore done before a thunderstorm does Janisse use in the Introduction as a metaphor for the Georgian people seeing everything coming before it happens?
(a) Raking the leaves.
(b) Putting out the rain barrels.
(c) Rounding up the animals.
(d) Bringing in the laundry.

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

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. 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) Lockjaw.
(c) Poisoning.
(d) Plague.

5. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?
(a) Almost every summer afternoon.
(b) At least three times a week.
(c) About once a month.
(d) Rarely.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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