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

2. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?
(a) Lockjaw.
(b) A bad cut.
(c) Plague.
(d) Poisoning.

3. In what year did Clyo finally succumb to her various maladies?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1980.

4. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?
(a) A Separate Peace.
(b) Ecotopia.
(c) Absalom, Absalom.
(d) A Brave New World.

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

Short Answer 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?"

2. For what practice does the gopher tortoise require open sunny spots within their habitats?

3. In the chapter Beulahland, Janisse shares one of Beulah's recipes that was passed down to her for her hope chest. What dish is laid out in the recipe?

4. 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?

5. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?

(see the answer key)

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