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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?
(a) His tendency to talk for hours on end without listening to their replies.
(b) His inability to sleep.
(c) Displays of anger.
(d) Impulsive actions concerning his salvaging business.

4. 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) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.
(b) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(c) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.
(d) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.

5. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?
(a) Cookie.
(b) Cooks.
(c) Cook.
(d) Cookins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Janisse say the source of southern Georgia's majesty and sublimity used to come from before that source was destroyed?

2. What color is the Bachman's sparrow?

3. How many acres did Janisse's family's land take up, including the family home and her father Frank's junkyard?

4. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?

5. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?

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