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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?
(a) By calling the police and threatening to have him recommitted.
(b) By giving him all the money she had.
(c) By telling him that he could live in the old van down by the river.
(d) By telling him that the children would be better off without him.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?

3. When Janisse's parents tell the the children the stories of their births, where do they say Janisse was found?

4. Janisse uses a quote from which novel to begin Chapter 3, Shame?

5. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?

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