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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the welfare checks for Clyo and her children stop coming a few years after she and Charlie split up?
(a) Because Charlie somehow changed the listed family address at the welfare office.
(b) Because when the welfare office contacted Charlie to sign some papers, he said he would support the children himself if Clyo would send them down to him in Florida.
(c) Because Clyo had started to make more money in the cotton fields.
(d) Because all of the children began working odd jobs to help support the family.

2. When Janisse handled the indigo snake that she and Milton had found, she writes that she handled the snake with care for two reasons. One was that she was precious. What was the other reason?
(a) Because she was four feet long and the size of her scared Janisse.
(b) Because she appeared to be pregnant.
(c) Because she could inflict a severe bite if she sense fear or became afraid.
(d) Because she appeared to have just eaten a relatively large meal.

3. When Milton told a story about catching an eight-foot-long indigo snake and it getting loose in his family's home, where did he say they eventually found it?
(a) In the attic.
(b) Wrapped around the coils behind the freezer.
(c) In the basement.
(d) Wrapped around a pipe under the bathroom sink.

4. Why are trees rare on savannas?
(a) They are too shallow to support roots.
(b) They are too wet.
(c) They do not receive enough sunlight.
(d) They receive too much direct sunlight.

5. What kind of road side stand did Janisse stop at when she saw that a vendor had painted a gopher tortoise with gold and silver paint?
(a) A fresh farm egg stand.
(b) A barbecue purveyor.
(c) A fruit stand.
(d) A flea market stand.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What was the main reason Janisse and her siblings were not anxious to use the camper on a trip?

3. Though Janisse had never seen an indigo snake in the wild until she was an adult, her older friend Milton said that he had seen them before. In what context had he seen them?

4. Which state designated the gopher tortoise as their state reptile in 1989?

5. At the time of the memoir's writing, about many red-cockaded woodpeckers were left in the United States, most of them relegated to Florida?

(see the answer key)

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