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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the official designation of the longleaf pine's status, as stated by the National Biological Service?
(a) Critically endangered.
(b) Extinct.
(c) Endangered.
(d) Virtually extinct.

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

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

4. Though Frank did not graduate from high school, Janisse cited two other forms of education that Frank sought out and received. What were those two sources of education?
(a) Enrollment at a business school downtown and the math instruction he received from his grandfather while learning to survey.
(b) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.
(c) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.
(d) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.

5. The family's junkyard was bordered by a group of row houses that lacked two modern conveniences. What two elements did the houses lack?
(a) Running water and telephone service.
(b) Heat and running water.
(c) Electricity and running water.
(d) Electricity and telephone service.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat did Janisse use to try to get the vendor to let her take the painted tortoise to safety?

2. What type of bird was Clyde, the bird that Frank nursed back to health after finding it on the side of the highway with a broken leg and wing?

3. At the height of the red-cockaded woodpecker's population growth in the eastern United States, about how many were there?

4. Once gopher tortoises reach the age at which they are too big to be swallowed, they have few predators. Which of the following is NOT one of their predators during this stage?

5. When Charlie somehow got out of the mental institution to which Clyo had him committed, how did she persuade him to leave the family home again?

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