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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) Pretend to be both teacher and student.
(c) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.
(d) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.

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

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

4. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?
(a) She would rather be peeling potatoes.
(b) She would rather be learning how to fix cars.
(c) She would rather be helping her mother sew.
(d) She would rather be outside.

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?
(a) 65 million.
(b) 35 million.
(c) 85 million.
(d) 105 million.

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

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

4. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?

5. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?

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