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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction & Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?
(a) Extinct.
(b) Virtually extinct.
(c) Endangered.
(d) Critically endangered.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

5. On the outskirts of what town is the junkyard where Janisse spent her childhood?

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