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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What forbidden activity do Janisse and her siblings get to do when they are at Beulah's house?
(a) They get to wear bathing suits while swimming.
(b) They get to watch television.
(c) They get to celebrate the childrens' birthdays.
(d) They get to wear summer clothes.

2. 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?
(a) In the wild twenty or thirty years prior.
(b) Wrapped around women in carnival sideshows.
(c) In reptile zoos.
(d) In aquariums.

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

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

5. What event first caused Janisse to talk to her teacher Lucia Godfrey during recess, sparking her interest in learning more about nature?
(a) She is assigned recess detention for swearing.
(b) The boys will not allow her to play football.
(c) Her mother tells Janisse a story about Lucia Godfrey that piques Janisse's interest.
(d) It starts to snow and Janisse asks her teacher about this rare event.

6. 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) The insects they like to eat have dwindled in number due to the shrinking numbers of red-cockaded woodpeckers.
(d) They like to sun themselves on flat, open spaces like roads, so they are frequently run over by cars.

7. What is the average amount of rainfall in Appling County, Georgia?
(a) 30 inches.
(b) 50 inches.
(c) 40 inches.
(d) 60 inches.

8. Until what year was the Altamaha River the only mode of transportation for settlers in Appling County?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1870.

9. What prompted Janisse to write an essay about the rafting trip down the Altamaha?
(a) She had brought Thoreau's Journals along on the trip.
(b) She did not ever want to forget the details of the trip.
(c) Her father told her that she should.
(d) Her mother told her that she should.

10. What article of clothing did Lee Ada make for Janisse that caused people to call her Little Red Riding Hood?
(a) A red knitted scarf.
(b) A red fur hat.
(c) A red fleece dress.
(d) A red corduroy coat.

11. Which state designated the gopher tortoise as their state reptile in 1989?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Florida.
(d) Texas.

12. Where did Janisse get pants to wear on the rafting trip, her very first time wearing pants due to her family's religious convictions?
(a) A local thrift store.
(b) The dump.
(c) She borrowed them from her brother Dell.
(d) In one of the cars in the junkyard.

13. What was the punishment if Janisse or one of her siblings disobeyed Frank's instructions while they were left alone in the house?
(a) A week without friends being allowed to visit.
(b) A week without being allowed to play in the junkyard.
(c) A beating with a wooden spoon.
(d) A whipping with a belt.

14. In what year did Clyo finally succumb to her various maladies?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1995.

15. What is the maximum life span of a gopher tortoise?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 70 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 50 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the maximum rainfall that occurs in Appling County in a given year?

2. What is the main practice of gopher tortoises that helps other types of forest animals to survive?

3. What number child was Lee Ada within her family?

4. What sign of distress did Janisse notice when looking at the painted tortoise?

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?

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