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

2. 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) It starts to snow and Janisse asks her teacher about this rare event.
(c) The boys will not allow her to play football.
(d) Her mother tells Janisse a story about Lucia Godfrey that piques Janisse's interest.

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?
(a) Money, space, and time.
(b) Time, understanding, and leisure.
(c) Freedom, money, and time.
(d) Means, education, and ease.

4. Why are trees rare on savannas?
(a) They do not receive enough sunlight.
(b) They are too wet.
(c) They are too shallow to support roots.
(d) They receive too much direct 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) In reptile zoos.
(b) In aquariums.
(c) In the wild twenty or thirty years prior.
(d) Wrapped around women in carnival sideshows.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time of the memoir's writing, about many red-cockaded woodpeckers were left in the United States, most of them relegated to Florida?

2. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?

3. During the time Clyo worked in the cotton fields, what was one health problem from which she did NOT suffer?

4. Which state designated the gopher tortoise as their state reptile in 1989?

5. What was the main reason Janisse and her siblings were not anxious to use the camper on a trip?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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)

9. 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?

10. What does Janisse mean when she writes that the last chapter of Proverbs describes her mother Lee Ada better than anything she herself could attempt?

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