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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?
(a) A jungle gym.
(b) An arbor for a grapevine.
(c) A bathtub frame.
(d) A cart to pull behind the family car.

4. When Janisse relates that the children did not believe their birth stories, what does she say would have been a more believable story for their parents to have told about her own birth?
(a) That she'd been delivered in the parking lot of the hospital.
(b) That they'd found her in a basket on their doorstep.
(c) That they had found her in the truck of a '52 Ford.
(d) That she'd been brought by a stork.

5. Though Frank did not graduate from high school, Janisse cited two other forms of education that Frank sought out and received. What were those two sources of education?
(a) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(b) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.
(c) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.
(d) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what county in Georgia was Janisse raised?

2. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?

3. What event did Frank attend on the day he had his first major nervous breakdown during Janisse's childhood?

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. By what year had virtually all of the longleaf pines been felled, leaving only .001 percent of its former numbers?

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