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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?
(a) The river that flowed through town had been polluted by the nearby sewage treatment plant.
(b) The town's main street was lined with magnolia trees.
(c) There was frequent spreading of fertilizer on the crops to keep the soil fertile.
(d) There was a paper mill in town that emitted the smell of rotten eggs.

2. Why did Janisse not worry when she did not have time to clean the makeshift chalkboard she and her brothers used to play school?
(a) Because she liked to start off the next lesson by punishing her brothers for some imagined misbehavior by making them clean the chalkboard.
(b) Because she knew a thunderstorm would come soon and wash the board clean.
(c) Because she knew she could come back out after dinner and play by herself.
(d) Because she knew her brothers liked to clean the board off with the hose.

3. 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?
(a) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.
(b) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(c) That she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(d) That she'd been brought by a stork.

4. What was the name of the closest mental hospital to the Rays' home, where many family members and neighbors of theirs spent time?
(a) Bedlam.
(b) Western.
(c) Milledgeville.
(d) Leavenworth.

5. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?
(a) Humans and longleaf pines.
(b) Rivers and grasslands.
(c) Longleaf pines and lightning.
(d) Swamps and monsoons.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?

2. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?

3. The author writes that although the families in her area would have defended the land to the death, they lacked three things that would have allowed them to care about the actual health of its natural communities. What were those three things?

4. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?

5. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?

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