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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the author writes that Frank would often help "a family like the Joads" by feeding them or finding candy for their children when they stopped in to get a part to fix their broken-down car, what novel is she referencing?
(a) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
(b) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
(c) The Stranger by Albert Camus.
(d) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

2. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
(a) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.
(b) Pretend to be both teacher and student.
(c) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.
(d) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.

3. What kind of creature did Beulah catch in her hands one day, much to the delight of Janisse and her siblings?
(a) A ruby-throated hummingbird.
(b) A sparrow.
(c) A red-cockaded woodpecker.
(d) A chameleon.

4. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?
(a) 300 years old.
(b) 500 years old.
(c) 200 years old.
(d) 1000 years old.

5. What does the term bricoleur mean?
(a) A term given to a bread-maker who uses only natural ingredients.
(b) A term given to someone who cannot see a situation from another's perspective.
(c) A term given to a manipulative person.
(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. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?

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

3. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?

4. What is the main practice of gopher tortoises that helps other types of forest animals to survive?

5. What kind of road side stand did Janisse stop at when she saw that a vendor had painted a gopher tortoise with gold and silver paint?

(see the answer key)

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