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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What did the children call their club whose purpose was to search the salvaged cars for valuable items?
(a) The Thingfinders Club.
(b) The Oddfellows.
(c) The Treasure Hunters.
(d) The Salvage Crew.

4. 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?
(a) She called the sheriff to come search for Janisse among the junk.
(b) She waited until Janisse's father got home and sent him to find Janisse.
(c) She tied jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes.
(d) She lured her with the promise of peaches.

5. What does the term bricoleur mean?
(a) A term given to a manipulative person.
(b) A term given to someone who cannot see a situation from another's perspective.
(c) A term given to a bread-maker who uses only natural ingredients.
(d) A term given to folk recyclers, those who find purposes for castaway objects in which others cannot see a value.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?

2. How long did it take the family to travel to the nearest Apostolic Church, which was in the town of Brunswick?

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

4. 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?

5. What number child is Janisse within her family?

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