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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 tell the children they must do if anyone approached the family's swimming hole while he was teaching them to swim?
(a) They have to be nice to the newcomers and introduce themselves.
(b) They have to go underwater.
(c) They have to grab their towels and cover up as quickly as they can.
(d) They have to run and jump into the car even if they are soaking wet.

2. For what practice does the gopher tortoise require open sunny spots within their habitats?
(a) Drying out their shells.
(b) Absorbing Vitamin D.
(c) Laying eggs.
(d) Eating.

3. What is the maximum rainfall that occurs in Appling County in a given year?
(a) 48 inches.
(b) 72 inches.
(c) 25 inches.
(d) 60 inches.

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

5. 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) 750,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. John James Audubon is famous for something besides the bird-watching society that carries his name. How did he make his living?

2. What was the name of the Rays' neighbor who survived a train accident in 1955?

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?

4. What was the name of the closest mental hospital to the Rays' home, where many family members and neighbors of theirs spent time?

5. Indigo snakes have a four-month mating season once a year. When is it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Janisse draw parallels between the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Cracker people who inhabit her homeland?

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

3. Beyond just the loss of their physical homes, what does Janisse mean when she writes that all of the animals who live among longleaf pines face "loss of place" (142) as a result of logging?

4. 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?

5. What story does Janisse use to show how careful and smart her grandmother Clyo was when trying to run her bootlegging operation without getting caught?

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 were the two pieces of advice given to Frank by the doctor in the state mental hospital who had taken an interest in his case?

8. Who was the first person to spark Janisse's interest in the natural world and how did that person spark her interest?

9. How does the concept of determinism emerge in the final paragraph of the chapter entitled Poverty?

10. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?

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