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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Frank abandon after only a year the church he had founded when his children were small?
(a) He did not know how he could make enough money as a preacher in order to support his large family.
(b) He did not think his growing congregation was devoted enough to their faith.
(c) He felt that God had not officially or personally called him to preach.
(d) He wanted to move the family to a different county.

2. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?
(a) They were the only ones who did not speak in tongues.
(b) They celebrated Christmas.
(c) They were the only white members of the congregation.
(d) They were the only family with fewer than eight children.

3. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?
(a) Patience and doggedness.
(b) Intelligence and kindness.
(c) Understanding and order.
(d) Dexterity and compassion.

4. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?
(a) Zoo.
(b) Runaway school bus.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Chain gang.

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 veterinarian and his van was in the family junkyard.
(c) He was a local mortician and his hearse was in the family junkyard.
(d) He was a local doctor and his old ambulance was in the family junkyard.

6. When tree farming became common practice in 1940, why was the longleaf pine rarely planted by tree farmers?
(a) Its seedlings were too expensive.
(b) Its taproot was unwieldy and it grew slowly.
(c) It required too much room to grow.
(d) It did not bring as much money as other species of tree.

7. At the hands of the tree farmers, the land was laid bare. What simile does Janisse use to describe its bare state?
(a) Bare as a sand dune.
(b) Bare as a vulture's pate.
(c) Bare as a possum's tail.
(d) Bare as a blank sheet of paper.

8. When Janisse was very small and used to hide from her mother in the junkyard, what remedy did her mother use in order to find her?
(a) She waited until Janisse's father got home and sent him to find Janisse.
(b) She called the sheriff to come search for Janisse among the junk.
(c) She tied jingle bells onto Janisse's shoes.
(d) She lured her with the promise of peaches.

9. 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 concrete wall of the garage.
(b) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.
(c) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(d) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.

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

11. What breed was the dog that Frank treated with painkillers and saved after it had been hit by a car on the highway?
(a) Dachshund.
(b) Beagle.
(c) Golden Retriever.
(d) Collie.

12. What prompted Frank to buy out his father Charlie's share of the salvage business?
(a) Charlie cares only about living paycheck to paycheck, but Frank wants to do more than just survive.
(b) Frank fights too often with Charlie, making the workplace too tense.
(c) Charlie wants to move to Florida to pick oranges for a living.
(d) Frank discovers that Charlie has been siphoning money from the business into his own pockets.

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

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

15. What number child is Janisse within her family?
(a) First-born.
(b) Fourth-born.
(c) Second-born.
(d) Third-born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?

2. What does Dell, Janisse's brother, claim to have seen men stealing from the junkyard in the middle of the night?

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

4. 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?

5. What city is NOT one of the bigger cities closest to Janisse's hometown?

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