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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What constituted Janisse's and her brothers' very favorite game within the junkyard?
(a) Playing church.
(b) Pretending to be paramedics saving car accident victims.
(c) Chasing each other along the tops of salvaged cars.
(d) Making believe they were car salespeople.

3. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?
(a) In a bed of pine needles in the forest.
(b) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(c) In a big cabbage in the garden.
(d) Under a grapevine.

4. 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?"
(a) Christopher Marlowe.
(b) John Donne.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) William Shakespeare.

5. What expensive item did Frank buy for the household in order to foster his childrens' interest in knowledge and learning?
(a) A gold-encased compass.
(b) A microscope kit.
(c) A marble globe.
(d) A set of encyclopedias.

Short Answer Questions

1. What number child is Janisse within her family?

2. Though everyone was aware of Frank's predilection toward mental illness, what did everyone, including the police, agree was another possible cause of his first major nervous breakdown?

3. Though she patiently and valiantly fought to bring Frank back to mental health, what happened to finally convince Lee Ada that Frank needed to check in to a mental hospital?

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

5. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?

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