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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following people feared that the tracks surrounding Rawlings's cabin belonged to ghosts?
(a) Adrenna.
(b) Rawlings.
(c) Widow Slater.
(d) Martha.

2. What does a chicken snake eat?
(a) Birds.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Grain.

3. How did Rawlings feel about her life in Cross Creek after returning from her river adventure with Dessie?
(a) She resented Cross Creek.
(b) She feared Cross Creek.
(c) She idolized Cross Creek.
(d) She appreciated Cross Creek.

4. Which of the following birds most excited Rawlings when it came to visit her farm?
(a) A hummingbird.
(b) A blue jay.
(c) A sparrow.
(d) A woodpecker.

5. What river did Dessie and Rawlings travel together?
(a) The Ocklawaha River.
(b) The St. John River.
(c) The Mississippi River.
(d) The Halifax River.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives best described the yachtsman's wife?

2. Which of Martha's relatives did Samson marry?

3. How did Rawlings feel about the neighboring pigs eating from her farm?

4. Which of the following types of snake did Rawlings once skin?

5. How were Rawlings and Dess greeted by the poor white people who lived in huts near the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Rawlings feeling about her life at the time when Dessie invited her on a river trip?

2. How did Rawlings feel when Kate's brother was in town?

3. How did Rawlings kill the cottonmouth snake she found in her house?

4. What type of snakes lived on Rawlings's property, and how did she feel about these different varieties?

5. What did Rawlings learn about her fear of snakes while she was out hunting with Ross?

6. What happened when Rawlings's car got stuck in the soft sand near her farm?

7. What problem arose when Fatty Blake held a two-county free dinner?

8. What types of bread were regularly served in Cross Creek, and which was Rawlings's favorite?

9. What weapons did Rawlings believe all African-American servants had over their employers?

10. What trouble did ants give Rawlings during planting season on the farm?

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