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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Frank, Janisse, and Steve eat for dessert while floating down the river on their trip?
(a) Chocolate cake.
(b) Peanut brittle.
(c) Pudding.
(d) Banana cream pie.

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

3. How far a distance do flatwood salamanders travel each way in order to reach the breeding grounds?
(a) 200 yards.
(b) 3 miles.
(c) 500 yards.
(d) 1 mile.

4. 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) 1,000,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 750,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. In what year was Clyo caught bootlegging for the second time, causing her to stop the practice from that point on?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Janisse feel about her mother when she was a child?

2. Rather than disciplining the children by spanking them or hurting them in any other way, what methods did Lee Ada use to get the children to behave?

3. What was Janisse's reaction to seeing her first indigo snake live in the wild?

4. Why did Janisse choose to call her father Frank rather than the sheriff or the wildlife officer or someone else when she could not talk the fruit vendor into turning over the distressed tortoise he had just painted with gold and silver paint?

5. What are the characteristics of the red-cockaded woodpecker that lead to it being such a good example of the fauna losses caused by the loss of the longleaf pine?

6. What is ironic about Clyo's refusal to let Frank help her improve her health and her simultaneous belief that sending the little money she has to televangelists will make her well again?

7. What is the main characteristic present in indigo snakes that led to much of their endangered status, in addition to the fact that they use endangered gopher tortoises' burrows as shelter?

8. What actions does Janisse relate taking in order to show how interested she was in anything advertised as free in her childhood?

9. How does Janisse describe the type of knowledge she had by the time she left home versus the type of knowledge she lacked at that time?

10. What are the special characteristics of living near longleaf pines that cause the lives of the animals that live near them to be "woven together?" (141)

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