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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 Lee Ada do for a time after graduating from high school?
(a) She cleaned houses.
(b) She stayed home and cared for her sick brother.
(c) She went off to attend the local university.
(d) She enrolled at a business school.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose name did Clyo call out when she lay dying?

2. What book did Janisse read that caused her to look closely at an anthill in the junkyard and to simply the furnishings in her room?

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

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

5. What is the maximum life span of a gopher tortoise?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were some elements of Frank's childhood that belie the poverty his family suffered during the aftershocks of the stock market crash in 1929?

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

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. 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?

6. 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?

7. If she had any spare time, what did Janisse always want to do and how did her mother feel about that pastime?

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

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

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

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