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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At what store did Beulah shop every Friday, rain or shine?
(a) Helmann's.
(b) Piggly Wiggly.
(c) Ray's.
(d) Alpha-Beta.

3. 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) Means, education, and ease.
(b) Money, space, and time.
(c) Time, understanding, and leisure.
(d) Freedom, money, and time.

4. What is the main practice of gopher tortoises that helps other types of forest animals to survive?
(a) They dig burrows in which predators become trapped when chasing their prey.
(b) They dig burrows in which other animals take refuge.
(c) They are involved in a symbiotic relationship with a particular parasite that is a favorite food of many forest birds.
(d) They eat seeds that cannot be digested by other animals until they have already passed through the tortoise's digestive system.

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

6. What threat did Janisse use to try to get the vendor to let her take the painted tortoise to safety?
(a) She said she would call the wildlife officer.
(b) She said she would call the police.
(c) She said she would knock over the vendor's wares.
(d) She said she would call her father.

7. What did Lee Ada do for a time after graduating from high school?
(a) She stayed home and cared for her sick brother.
(b) She went off to attend the local university.
(c) She enrolled at a business school.
(d) She cleaned houses.

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

9. Janisse insists that she could never cook, telling a story about what happened the scant two times she tried to bake cookies. What happened each time?
(a) She added too much yeast and they began to flow out through the cracks in the oven door.
(b) She did not cook them long enough and served them raw.
(c) She forgot about them and they burned up.
(d) She forgot to add sugar.

10. At the height of the red-cockaded woodpecker's population growth in the eastern United States, about how many were there?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 250,000.

11. What does the name Lucia mean?
(a) Late.
(b) Money.
(c) Luck.
(d) Light.

12. Though she did not speak to Charlie for 25 years after they split up, what did Clyo do that showed she still cared about him?
(a) When Charlie stopped in to the Greasy Spoon Cafe, she always sent him a little note on his napkin when she sent his food out from the kitchen.
(b) When Charlie came to visit the children still living in Clyo's home, Clyo always left the house but left Charlie one of their love notes from the past.
(c) When Charlie had bad bouts of arthritis, Clyo always made up a batch of her special salve and sent it to Charlie.
(d) When Charlie came to visit their grown son across the street, she always fixed him a plate of food and sent another of their children over to give it to him.

13. What job did Janisse's friend Milton have when they were hiking and found the rare indigo snake together?
(a) Baker.
(b) Botanist.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Zoologist.

14. What did Frank use to plug the holes in the flat-bottomed boat?
(a) Bread.
(b) Rubber plugs.
(c) Tape.
(d) Corks.

15. Who fell overboard when the family visited the houseboat of another local family, prompting Frank to save the person?
(a) Janisse.
(b) Lee Ada.
(c) Steve.
(d) Dell.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What forbidden activity do Janisse and her siblings get to do when they are at Beulah's house?

3. When the author writes that Frank would often help "a family like the Joads" by feeding them or finding candy for their children when they stopped in to get a part to fix their broken-down car, what novel is she referencing?

4. How far a distance do flatwood salamanders travel each way in order to reach the breeding grounds?

5. What evidence of the Lower Creek Indians' prior presence did Lee Ada find on Beulah's property when she was a little girl?

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