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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the town of Brunswick have a distinctive smell?
(a) There was frequent spreading of fertilizer on the crops to keep the soil fertile.
(b) The town's main street was lined with magnolia trees.
(c) There was a paper mill in town that emitted the smell of rotten eggs.
(d) The river that flowed through town had been polluted by the nearby sewage treatment plant.

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) Beside a huckleberry bush.
(c) Under a grapevine.
(d) Inside a big cabbage in the garden.

3. In Chapter 10, Timber, Janisse writes that railroads were to pines what railroads were to buffalo. What does she state that railroads were to both pines and buffalo?
(a) A savior.
(b) A means of possible survival.
(c) A means of distracting the masses from the real destruction.
(d) A means to extinction.

4. What materials did Frank use in order to build the children a swing set in the backyard?
(a) Car engines.
(b) Car hoods.
(c) Milk crates.
(d) Lengths of pipe.

5. What type of business did Janisse's grandfather Charlie run with his wife Clyo until he got into a fistfight that destroyed the structure?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A thrift store.
(c) An insurance office.
(d) A pharmacy.

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 does the term bricoleur mean?

3. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?

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

5. What number child is Janisse within her family?

(see the answer key)

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