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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?
(a) 86 years.
(b) 210 years.
(c) 180 years.
(d) 150 years.

2. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?
(a) They borrowed them from friends and read them only in the junkyard when their father was not around.
(b) They sneaked them home from the library within their clothes and sandwiched them between acceptable volumes.
(c) They bought them from garage sales and sneaked them home in their backpacks.
(d) They waited for the Bookmobile to make a stop in town and spent hours inside the van reading forbidden titles.

3. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 25.
(d) 21.

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?
(a) A means of distracting the masses from the real destruction.
(b) A means of possible survival.
(c) A savior.
(d) A means to extinction.

5. When Janisse tells her father repeatedly that she does not like her piano lessons, what does she say she would rather be doing?
(a) She would rather be helping her mother sew.
(b) She would rather be outside.
(c) She would rather be learning how to fix cars.
(d) She would rather be peeling potatoes.

6. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?
(a) The swath of huckleberry bushes deep in the forest behind her childhood home.
(b) The willow tree where she experienced her first kiss.
(c) The mouth of the Altamaha River.
(d) Her grandmother's and grandfather's graves in the cemetery.

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

8. 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 veterinarian and his van 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.

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

10. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?
(a) Memories.
(b) Machines.
(c) Goals.
(d) Plans.

11. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?
(a) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(b) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.
(c) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.
(d) The concrete wall of the garage.

12. 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 she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(c) That she'd been brought by a stork.
(d) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.

13. What chore done before a thunderstorm does Janisse use in the Introduction as a metaphor for the Georgian people seeing everything coming before it happens?
(a) Rounding up the animals.
(b) Putting out the rain barrels.
(c) Raking the leaves.
(d) Bringing in the laundry.

14. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?
(a) Engines.
(b) Copper wire.
(c) Windows.
(d) Radiators.

15. How often does Janisse say thunderstorms happened in the summer in their area of Georgia?
(a) Rarely.
(b) At least three times a week.
(c) About once a month.
(d) Almost every summer afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What elements of the Borderlanders' lives led them to have migratory habits?

2. 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?

3. 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?"

4. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?

5. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?

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