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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 book did Janisse read that caused her to look closely at an anthill in the junkyard and to simply the furnishings in her room?
(a) Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Absalom, Absalom.
(c) Walden.
(d) On Golden Pond.

2. 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 run and jump into the car even if they are soaking wet.
(c) They have to grab their towels and cover up as quickly as they can.
(d) They have to go underwater.

3. Where did Janisse get pants to wear on the rafting trip, her very first time wearing pants due to her family's religious convictions?
(a) A local thrift store.
(b) The dump.
(c) She borrowed them from her brother Dell.
(d) In one of the cars in the junkyard.

4. What did Frank do with the painted tortoise when the vendor finally released it?
(a) He built a little house for it in his backyard.
(b) He administered pain medication to it and set it free.
(c) He dug a burrow for it in the forest and placed the tortoise inside.
(d) He took it to a veterinarian.

5. What prompted Janisse to write an essay about the rafting trip down the Altamaha?
(a) She had brought Thoreau's Journals along on the trip.
(b) She did not ever want to forget the details of the trip.
(c) Her mother told her that she should.
(d) Her father told her that she should.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lee Ada do for a time after graduating from high school?

2. How many children did Clyo and Charlie have together?

3. In the chapter Beulahland, Janisse shares one of Beulah's recipes that was passed down to her for her hope chest. What dish is laid out in the recipe?

4. At the height of the red-cockaded woodpecker's population growth in the eastern United States, about how many were there?

5. Though she did not speak to Charlie for 25 years after they split up, what did Clyo do that showed she still cared about him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What aspect of her parents' relationship did Janisse feel jealousy about?

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

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