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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 was the name of the Rays' neighbor who survived a train accident in 1955?
(a) Willie.
(b) Jeffrey.
(c) Joey.
(d) Charlie.

2. Why did the welfare checks for Clyo and her children stop coming a few years after she and Charlie split up?
(a) Because Charlie somehow changed the listed family address at the welfare office.
(b) Because when the welfare office contacted Charlie to sign some papers, he said he would support the children himself if Clyo would send them down to him in Florida.
(c) Because all of the children began working odd jobs to help support the family.
(d) Because Clyo had started to make more money in the cotton fields.

3. What color is the Bachman's sparrow?
(a) Gray with a brown tail.
(b) Brown with a blue tail.
(c) Brown with a gray tail.
(d) Blue with a brown tail.

4. 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?
(a) Buttermilk pie.
(b) Shepherd's pie.
(c) Buttermilk biscuits.
(d) Coconut cream pie.

5. How far a distance do flatwood salamanders travel each way in order to reach the breeding grounds?
(a) 200 yards.
(b) 500 yards.
(c) 3 miles.
(d) 1 mile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the drunk transient man whom Frank invited in for dinner?

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

4. Janisse insists that she could never cook, telling a story about what happened the scant two times she tried to bake cookies. What happened each time?

5. What was the punishment if Janisse or one of her siblings disobeyed Frank's instructions while they were left alone in the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. What is the main characteristic present in indigo snakes that led to much of their endangered status, in addition to the fact that they use endangered gopher tortoises' burrows as shelter?

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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

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