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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 threat did Janisse use to try to get the vendor to let her take the painted tortoise to safety?
(a) She said she would call her father.
(b) She said she would knock over the vendor's wares.
(c) She said she would call the wildlife officer.
(d) She said she would call the police.

2. What is the maximum life span of a gopher tortoise?
(a) 70 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 20 years.

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 are involved in a symbiotic relationship with a particular parasite that is a favorite food of many forest birds.
(c) They dig burrows in which other animals take refuge.
(d) They dig burrows in which predators become trapped when chasing their prey.

4. What event first caused Janisse to talk to her teacher Lucia Godfrey during recess, sparking her interest in learning more about nature?
(a) She is assigned recess detention for swearing.
(b) The boys will not allow her to play football.
(c) It starts to snow and Janisse asks her teacher about this rare event.
(d) Her mother tells Janisse a story about Lucia Godfrey that piques Janisse's interest.

5. What reason does Janisse give for the indigo snake's dwindling numbers?
(a) Their skin is frequently used to make cowboy boots.
(b) They like to sun themselves on flat, open spaces like roads, so they are frequently run over by cars.
(c) They are docile, so they are over-collected as pets.
(d) The insects they like to eat have dwindled in number due to the shrinking numbers of red-cockaded woodpeckers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until what year was the Altamaha River the only mode of transportation for settlers in Appling County?

2. Which state designated the gopher tortoise as their state reptile in 1989?

3. What did Frank do with the painted tortoise when the vendor finally released it?

4. On what object did Lee Ada embroider the words, "I love you, Franklin"?

5. What does the name Lucia mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. Beyond just the loss of their physical homes, what does Janisse mean when she writes that all of the animals who live among longleaf pines face "loss of place" (142) as a result of logging?

2. When Janisse says of her grandmother Clyo and grandfather Charlie, "Both of them knew what the food symbolized and neither was willing to make further amends," (148) what does she mean?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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)

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