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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 sign of distress did Janisse notice when looking at the painted tortoise?
(a) It was making a faint wheezing sound.
(b) It had pulled its head into its shell.
(c) It was drooling from its nose and mouth.
(d) It had turned onto its back.

2. What did Frank, Janisse, and Steve eat for dessert while floating down the river on their trip?
(a) Banana cream pie.
(b) Chocolate cake.
(c) Peanut brittle.
(d) Pudding.

3. What is the main practice of gopher tortoises that helps other types of forest animals to survive?
(a) They eat seeds that cannot be digested by other animals until they have already passed through the tortoise's digestive system.
(b) They dig burrows in which predators become trapped when chasing their prey.
(c) They dig burrows in which other animals take refuge.
(d) They are involved in a symbiotic relationship with a particular parasite that is a favorite food of many forest birds.

4. The family's junkyard was bordered by a group of row houses that lacked two modern conveniences. What two elements did the houses lack?
(a) Running water and telephone service.
(b) Heat and running water.
(c) Electricity and telephone service.
(d) Electricity and running water.

5. What article of clothing did Lee Ada make for Janisse that caused people to call her Little Red Riding Hood?
(a) A red fur hat.
(b) A red knitted scarf.
(c) A red fleece dress.
(d) A red corduroy coat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Janisse when her maternal grandfather Arthur died of cancer?

3. With which type of creature was Janisse's maternal grandmother Beulah fascinated?

4. What did Janisse's mother Lee Ada and her sister Kay call Janisse?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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