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

2. What did Janisse's mother Lee Ada and her sister Kay call Janisse?
(a) Worrywart.
(b) Tomboy.
(c) Whiner.
(d) Workhorse.

3. 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) Her father told her that she should.
(c) She did not ever want to forget the details of the trip.
(d) Her mother told her that she should.

4. What was the name of the drunk transient man whom Frank invited in for dinner?
(a) Elvin.
(b) Elvis.
(c) Elrod.
(d) Elray.

5. How many children did Clyo and Charlie have together?
(a) Nine.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Why did Lee Ada and Frank elope?

3. When Milton told a story about catching an eight-foot-long indigo snake and it getting loose in his family's home, where did he say they eventually found it?

4. What article of clothing did Lee Ada make for Janisse that caused people to call her Little Red Riding Hood?

5. What is the maximum rainfall that occurs in Appling County in a given year?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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)

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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

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