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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) Pudding.
(b) Peanut brittle.
(c) Chocolate cake.
(d) Banana cream pie.

2. Indigo snakes have a four-month mating season once a year. When is it?
(a) October through January.
(b) June through September.
(c) December through March.
(d) November through February.

3. John James Audubon is famous for something besides the bird-watching society that carries his name. How did he make his living?
(a) Author.
(b) Veterinarian.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Artist.

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?
(a) A fruit stand.
(b) A fresh farm egg stand.
(c) A flea market stand.
(d) A barbecue purveyor.

5. 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 refrain from having children for one full year.
(b) They will not tell their parents who officiated the ceremony.
(c) They will get married outside rather than in the church.
(d) They will name their firstborn child after the preacher.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The family's junkyard was bordered by a group of row houses that lacked two modern conveniences. What two elements did the houses lack?

3. What did Frank use to plug the holes in the flat-bottomed boat?

4. What threat did Janisse use to try to get the vendor to let her take the painted tortoise to safety?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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. 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?

7. How did Lee Ada's father Arthur feel about Frank's and Lee Ada's decision to elope?

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 types of things did Lee Ada collect to satisfy her love for pretty things?

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

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