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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?
(a) Every three months.
(b) Every two years.
(c) Every week.
(d) Every five years.

2. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Augusta, Georgia.
(c) Macon, Georgia.
(d) Baxley, Georgia.

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

4. How many acres did Janisse's family's land take up, including the family home and her father Frank's junkyard?
(a) 10 acres.
(b) 4 acres.
(c) 15 acres.
(d) 20 acres.

5. 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 vulture's pate.
(b) Bare as a blank sheet of paper.
(c) Bare as a sand dune.
(d) Bare as a possum's tail.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the term bricoleur mean?

3. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?

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

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

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