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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the only way the children could tell if Frank thought they had done well at target practice on a particular day?
(a) If they overheard him telling their mother Lee Ada.
(b) If they overheard him bragging to one of his brothers about the children's performance.
(c) If he bought them ice cream on the way home.
(d) If he gave them all a quick hug at the end of practice.

2. 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 enrolled at a business school.
(c) She cleaned houses.
(d) She went off to attend the local university.

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

4. After Lee Ada marries Frank, what task did she offer to help her father Arthur with when she was seeking to make peace with him?
(a) She offered to help him fix the roof on the house.
(b) She offered to wash the dishes after supper.
(c) She offered to help him crop tobacco.
(d) She offered to type up the manuscript of his memoirs.

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

6. 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) Paintings.
(c) Pieces of woven baskets.
(d) Pottery shards.

7. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?
(a) Tammy Faye Baker.
(b) Jimmy Swaggart.
(c) Jerry Falwell.
(d) Billy Graham.

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

9. In what year was Clyo caught bootlegging for the second time, causing her to stop the practice from that point on?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1962.

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

11. Though the preacher at first refused to marry Lee Ada and Frank, he finally agreed, providing they agree to one condition. What was that one condition?
(a) They will get married outside rather than in the church.
(b) They will refrain from having children for one full year.
(c) They will not tell their parents who officiated the ceremony.
(d) They will name their firstborn child after the preacher.

12. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1940.

13. How did Charlie die when he passed away three years prior to Clyo's death?
(a) He had a massive heart attack.
(b) He got into a car accident.
(c) He came down with a severe bout of pneumonia.
(d) He stopped eating and starved to death.

14. 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 corduroy coat.
(d) A red fleece dress.

15. With which type of creature was Janisse's maternal grandmother Beulah fascinated?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Lizards.
(c) Birds.
(d) Snakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of creature did Beulah catch in her hands one day, much to the delight of Janisse and her siblings?

2. On what object did Lee Ada embroider the words, "I love you, Franklin"?

3. Why did the welfare checks for Clyo and her children stop coming a few years after she and Charlie split up?

4. Why are trees rare on savannas?

5. How old was Lee Ada when she married Frank?

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