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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. In Chapter 3, Janisse describes her family's junkyard as ten acres of failed what?
(a) Plans.
(b) Machines.
(c) Memories.
(d) Goals.

2. What is the oldest age to which longleaf pines can live?
(a) 500 years old.
(b) 200 years old.
(c) 300 years old.
(d) 1000 years old.

3. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1930.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Foster Sellers and how did he play a role in the children's junkyard games?

3. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?

4. What game of pretend did Janisse and her brothers play inside the old school bus?

5. 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?

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