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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did the welfare checks for Clyo and her children stop coming a few years after she and Charlie split up?
(a) Because when the welfare office contacted Charlie to sign some papers, he said he would support the children himself if Clyo would send them down to him in Florida.
(b) Because all of the children began working odd jobs to help support the family.
(c) Because Clyo had started to make more money in the cotton fields.
(d) Because Charlie somehow changed the listed family address at the welfare office.

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

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

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

6. What number child was Lee Ada within her family?
(a) Three of four.
(b) Six of seven.
(c) Seven of eight.
(d) Five of six.

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

8. What book did Janisse read that caused her to look closely at an anthill in the junkyard and to simply the furnishings in her room?
(a) Walden.
(b) Pride and Prejudice.
(c) On Golden Pond.
(d) Absalom, Absalom.

9. What reason did Frank provide for giving Lee Ada a note saying, "Yes, Lee Ada, I will love you forever."
(a) He says that Lee Ada's father did not believe that Frank loved Lee Ada, so he wanted to provide him with written proof.
(b) He says that Lee Ada had never before received a love note, so he wanted his to be simple and to the point.
(c) He says that Lee Ada had told Frank many times by then that she loved him, but he had never had the courage to tell her, so he finally wrote it down.
(d) He says that Lee Ada had asked him so often if he still loved her that he had finally written down the answer so she would not forget.

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

11. What kind of creature did Beulah catch in her hands one day, much to the delight of Janisse and her siblings?
(a) A sparrow.
(b) A ruby-throated hummingbird.
(c) A chameleon.
(d) A red-cockaded woodpecker.

12. 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) Heat and running water.
(b) Electricity and running water.
(c) Electricity and telephone service.
(d) Running water and telephone service.

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

14. Why did Dell stay home from the rafting trip when Steve and Janisse and Frank go?
(a) He worked Saturdays at a local hardware store.
(b) He needed to stay home and take care of his sick mother.
(c) He got into a fight with their father before the rafting trip.
(d) He was afraid of the water.

15. What evidence of the Lower Creek Indians' prior presence did Lee Ada find on Beulah's property when she was a little girl?
(a) Arrowhead points.
(b) Pottery shards.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Pieces of woven baskets.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Lee Ada do for a time after graduating from high school?

3. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?

4. What was the only way the children could tell if Frank thought they had done well at target practice on a particular day?

5. Until what year was the Altamaha River the only mode of transportation for settlers in Appling County?

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