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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 game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?
(a) Runaway school bus.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Zoo.
(d) Chain gang.

2. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?
(a) Plans.
(b) Machines.
(c) Goals.
(d) Memories.

3. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) Under a grapevine.
(b) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.
(c) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(d) In a big cabbage in the garden.

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

5. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?
(a) Baxley, Georgia.
(b) Augusta, Georgia.
(c) Macon, Georgia.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?

2. 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?

3. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?

4. 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?

5. How many acres did Janisse's family's land take up, including the family home and her father Frank's junkyard?

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