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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 color is the Bachman's sparrow?
(a) Brown with a blue tail.
(b) Gray with a brown tail.
(c) Blue with a brown tail.
(d) Brown with a gray tail.

2. 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) Knowledge about politics he gleaned from his friend Curtis Hamilton, a former state senator, and street smarts he learned from his father Charlie.
(c) Cooking skills he had learned from his mother-in-law, Beulah, and sales skills he had absorbed from his father Charlie.
(d) Survival skills he learned from growing up with an abusive father and enrollment at an auto mechanics school.

3. Why do conscientious timber harvesters wait until the ground is dry to cut down certain trees they have pre-selected to be cut?
(a) Because when the ground is wet, gopher tortoises burrow in the ground, so cutting down the trees then will hurt the tortoises' habitat.
(b) Because if the ground is wet, the heavy machinery destroys surrounding vegetation.
(c) Because if the ground is wet, the heavy machinery gets destroyed by the moisture and a new machine has to be bought.
(d) Because if the ground is too wet, cutting the tree will leave many roots within the ground, which will make it hard to replant new trees.

4. What event did Janisse cite as the first time she saw the word environmentalism in action?
(a) She saw a crew cleaning up a nearby beach.
(b) She saw hundreds of volunteers cleaning up avian victims of an oil spill.
(c) She saw her father save a heron whose leg and wing were broken.
(d) She saw a sign around a tree designated to be cut and the sign begged for the tree to be spared.

5. During the time Clyo worked in the cotton fields, what was one health problem from which she did NOT suffer?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Gout.
(c) A lost kidney.
(d) Bad knees.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Janisse meet her first three friends at college?

2. Though she patiently and valiantly fought to bring Frank back to mental health, what happened to finally convince Lee Ada that Frank needed to check in to a mental hospital?

3. How many children did Clyo and Charlie have together?

4. What object did Frank create out of driveshafts, hollow metal rods, and fence wire?

5. What kind of school was North Georgia College?

(see the answer key)

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