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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Beside a huckleberry bush.
(c) Inside a big cabbage in the garden.
(d) Under a grapevine.

2. What city is NOT one of the bigger cities closest to Janisse's hometown?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Jacksonville.
(d) Macon.

3. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
(a) A jungle gym.
(b) A cart to pull behind the family car.
(c) A bathtub frame.
(d) An arbor for a grapevine.

4. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?
(a) They met at a friend's house and watched It's a Wonderful Life on television.
(b) They used headlights from the salvaged cars to make a string of high-powered Christmas lights as decorations for their tree house.
(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. Though Frank did not graduate from high school, Janisse cited two other forms of education that Frank sought out and received. What were those two sources of education?
(a) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.
(b) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.
(c) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.
(d) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

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

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

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

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