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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 doctor and his old ambulance was in the family junkyard.
(d) He was a local bank robber and his old car was in the family junkyard.

2. 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?
(a) The Red Hills from the mouth of the Altamaha River.
(b) The Military Reservation from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
(c) The plains of New Brunswick from the piedmont.
(d) The piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain.

3. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?
(a) Dexterity and compassion.
(b) Patience and doggedness.
(c) Intelligence and kindness.
(d) Understanding and order.

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

5. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?
(a) They sneaked them home from the library within their clothes and sandwiched them between acceptable volumes.
(b) They waited for the Bookmobile to make a stop in town and spent hours inside the van reading forbidden titles.
(c) They borrowed them from friends and read them only in the junkyard when their father was not around.
(d) They bought them from garage sales and sneaked them home in their backpacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?

2. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?

3. What number child is Janisse within her family?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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