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

2. 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) In one of the cars in the junkyard.
(d) She borrowed them from her brother Dell.

3. John James Audubon is famous for something besides the bird-watching society that carries his name. How did he make his living?
(a) Artist.
(b) Author.
(c) Veterinarian.
(d) Doctor.

4. 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?
(a) When Charlie had bad bouts of arthritis, Clyo always made up a batch of her special salve and sent it to Charlie.
(b) When Charlie came to visit the children still living in Clyo's home, Clyo always left the house but left Charlie one of their love notes from the past.
(c) When Charlie came to visit their grown son across the street, she always fixed him a plate of food and sent another of their children over to give it to him.
(d) When Charlie stopped in to the Greasy Spoon Cafe, she always sent him a little note on his napkin when she sent his food out from the kitchen.

5. At what store did Beulah shop every Friday, rain or shine?
(a) Piggly Wiggly.
(b) Helmann's.
(c) Alpha-Beta.
(d) Ray's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Frank tell the children they must do if anyone approached the family's swimming hole while he was teaching them to swim?

2. 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?

3. What kind of creature did Beulah catch in her hands one day, much to the delight of Janisse and her siblings?

4. What was the name of the Rays' neighbor who survived a train accident in 1955?

5. What reason does Janisse give for the indigo snake's dwindling numbers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. What are the characteristics of the red-cockaded woodpecker that lead to it being such a good example of the fauna losses caused by the loss of the longleaf pine?

9. 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?

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

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