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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 often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?
(a) Every week.
(b) Every two years.
(c) Every three months.
(d) Every five years.

2. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?
(a) He was a local doctor and his old ambulance was in the family junkyard.
(b) He was a local bank robber and his old car was in the family junkyard.
(c) He was a local mortician and his hearse was in the family junkyard.
(d) He was a local veterinarian and his van was in the family junkyard.

3. Janisse references a line of literature that may be the original source of the term 'Cracker': Who wrote the line, "What cracker is this same that deafes our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?"
(a) Christopher Marlowe.
(b) John Donne.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) William Faulkner.

4. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?
(a) They used headlights from the salvaged cars to make a string of high-powered Christmas lights as decorations for their tree house.
(b) They met at a friend's house and watched It's a Wonderful Life on television.
(c) They decorated a tree deep in the forest and exchanged gifts with one another.
(d) They went caroling in a neighborhood across town.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What expensive item did Frank buy for the household in order to foster his childrens' interest in knowledge and learning?

4. When Janisse's family said grace before each meal, each child in the family was required to say something. What were they required by Frank to say?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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