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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-30, Afterword, & Appendices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Janisse give for the indigo snake's dwindling numbers?
(a) Their skin is frequently used to make cowboy boots.
(b) They are docile, so they are over-collected as pets.
(c) They like to sun themselves on flat, open spaces like roads, so they are frequently run over by cars.
(d) The insects they like to eat have dwindled in number due to the shrinking numbers of red-cockaded woodpeckers.

2. How old was Janisse when she first saw real snow?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

3. What did Frank do with the painted tortoise when the vendor finally released it?
(a) He took it to a veterinarian.
(b) He dug a burrow for it in the forest and placed the tortoise inside.
(c) He built a little house for it in his backyard.
(d) He administered pain medication to it and set it free.

4. How old was Janisse when her maternal grandfather Arthur died of cancer?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

5. The author writes that although the families in her area would have defended the land to the death, they lacked three things that would have allowed them to care about the actual health of its natural communities. What were those three things?
(a) Money, space, and time.
(b) Freedom, money, and time.
(c) Means, education, and ease.
(d) Time, understanding, and leisure.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Janisse describes her area of southern Georgia as lying below the fall line. What does she say that fall line serves to separate from one another?

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

4. In what course did Janisse meet her mountain woman friend?

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

(see the answer key)

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