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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?
(a) 21.
(b) 25.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

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

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

4. In Chapter 10, Timber, Janisse writes that railroads were to pines what railroads were to buffalo. What does she state that railroads were to both pines and buffalo?
(a) A means to extinction.
(b) A means of distracting the masses from the real destruction.
(c) A means of possible survival.
(d) A savior.

5. What materials did Frank use in order to build the children a swing set in the backyard?
(a) Lengths of pipe.
(b) Car engines.
(c) Car hoods.
(d) Milk crates.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?

2. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?

3. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?

4. 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?

5. What number child is Janisse within her family?

(see the answer key)

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