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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. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?
(a) How to fight and how to fish.
(b) How to play horseshoes and how to wrestle.
(c) How to play the piano and how to tie a good knot.
(d) How to find huckleberry patches and how to make a raft.

2. 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) Putting out the rain barrels.
(b) Raking the leaves.
(c) Bringing in the laundry.
(d) Rounding up the animals.

3. 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?
(a) That she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(b) That she'd been brought by a stork.
(c) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(d) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.

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

5. In what year was Janisse born?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?

2. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?

3. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?

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

5. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?

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