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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the dangers Janisse's father Frank mentions when warning the children about the treacherous junkyard?
(a) A bad cut.
(b) Plague.
(c) Lockjaw.
(d) Poisoning.

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

3. What nickname did Frank call his wife, Lee Ada?
(a) Cookins.
(b) Cookie.
(c) Cooks.
(d) Cook.

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

5. What event did Frank attend on the day he had his first major nervous breakdown during Janisse's childhood?
(a) A car show.
(b) A boat show.
(c) A gun show.
(d) A gem and rock show.

6. What was the catalyst for the "opening" of Janisse's heart referenced in the chapter title How the Heart Opens?
(a) Her father's healing from his mental illness.
(b) Her discovery of her love for painting.
(c) Her fascination with the carnivorous pitcher plant.
(d) Her brother's decision to become a minister.

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

8. What did Frank's children begin to watch for as a sign that he was entering a manic phase of his mental illness?
(a) Impulsive actions concerning his salvaging business.
(b) His inability to sleep.
(c) Displays of anger.
(d) His tendency to talk for hours on end without listening to their replies.

9. In what way was the Ray family different than everyone else in the Apostolic Church's congregation?
(a) They celebrated Christmas.
(b) They were the only white members of the congregation.
(c) They were the only ones who did not speak in tongues.
(d) They were the only family with fewer than eight children.

10. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?
(a) 25.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

11. How often did the car crusher make a visit to the family junkyard?
(a) Every week.
(b) Every five years.
(c) Every two years.
(d) Every three months.

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

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

14. When her brothers did not want to play school, what would Janisse do instead?
(a) Pretend to be both teacher and student.
(b) Line up her dolls and pretend to teach them instead.
(c) Enlist her little sister as a 'baby pupil'.
(d) Ask her mom to come be her pretend student.

15. 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) An insurance office.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A pharmacy.
(d) A thrift store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charlie hope to accomplish by placing old shoes beneath plants?

2. Janisse references a line of literature that may be the original source of the term 'Cracker': Who wrote the line, "What cracker is this same that deafes our eares with this abundance of superfluous breath?"

3. How did Janisse and her brothers covertly celebrate Christmas one year without their father's knowledge?

4. For how many years does Janisse say her family had been in Appling County, Georgia?

5. What materials did Frank use in order to build the children a swing set in the backyard?

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