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

2. What is one place that Janisse's parents do NOT list as a place where one of their children was found?
(a) On a bed of moss in the treehouse.
(b) Inside a big cabbage in the garden.
(c) Beside a huckleberry bush.
(d) Under a grapevine.

3. When Janisse and her brothers used to play school, with Janisse often acting as the teacher, what did they use as a chalkboard?
(a) The sanded-down back of an old easel.
(b) The concrete wall of the garage.
(c) A bluish-green 1950 Nash car.
(d) A broken piece of chalkboard that had been salvaged from the childrens' demolished school.

4. In the Introduction, Janisse describes where she goes to find herself among what has been and what remains. Where is that place?
(a) The swath of huckleberry bushes deep in the forest behind her childhood home.
(b) The willow tree where she experienced her first kiss.
(c) Her grandmother's and grandfather's graves in the cemetery.
(d) The mouth of the Altamaha River.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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 is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?

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

5. In Chapter 4, Built by Fire, what two natural elements does Janisse pit against one another in her personification-laden story?

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