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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what store did Beulah shop every Friday, rain or shine?
(a) Ray's.
(b) Alpha-Beta.
(c) Helmann's.
(d) Piggly Wiggly.

2. Because Janisse was one of her grandfather Charlie's favorite grandchildren, what two skills did he teach her?
(a) How to fight and how to fish.
(b) How to play the piano and how to tie a good knot.
(c) How to find huckleberry patches and how to make a raft.
(d) How to play horseshoes and how to wrestle.

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

4. Pun's oft-given piece of advice to his son was, "Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off your heels." How does Janisse feel about this lesson?
(a) She says that she does not know what it truly means.
(b) She says that she has tried to live her life by it but has failed.
(c) She says that everyone in her family appears to have learned it except her, and she wishes she could learn it.
(d) She says that she has never learned it and hopes that she never does.

5. How did Janisse and her siblings get access to books which they knew would garner their father's disapproval?
(a) They bought them from garage sales and sneaked them home in their backpacks.
(b) They sneaked them home from the library within their clothes and sandwiched them between acceptable volumes.
(c) They borrowed them from friends and read them only in the junkyard when their father was not around.
(d) They waited for the Bookmobile to make a stop in town and spent hours inside the van reading forbidden titles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What traits does Janisse say are the two most elemental features of Frank's personality when she describes him in Chapter 7, Junkyard?

2. Why did Dell stay home from the rafting trip when Steve and Janisse and Frank go?

3. How old was Janisse when the family's boat sprung a leak on the Altamaha River and dumped everyone into the water?

4. What was the name of the drunk transient man whom Frank invited in for dinner?

5. What did Janisse's mother Lee Ada and her sister Kay call Janisse?

(see the answer key)

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