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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 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.

2. What is the maximum rainfall that occurs in Appling County in a given year?
(a) 60 inches.
(b) 25 inches.
(c) 48 inches.
(d) 72 inches.

3. What was the only way the children could tell if Frank thought they had done well at target practice on a particular day?
(a) If they overheard him telling their mother Lee Ada.
(b) If he gave them all a quick hug at the end of practice.
(c) If they overheard him bragging to one of his brothers about the children's performance.
(d) If he bought them ice cream on the way home.

4. 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 call the wildlife officer.
(c) She said she would knock over the vendor's wares.
(d) She said she would call the police.

5. What job did Janisse's friend Milton have when they were hiking and found the rare indigo snake together?
(a) Zoologist.
(b) Botanist.
(c) Baker.
(d) Farmer.

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. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?

3. At the time of the memoir's writing, about many red-cockaded woodpeckers were left in the United States, most of them relegated to Florida?

4. What was the main reason Janisse and her siblings were not anxious to use the camper on a trip?

5. After Lee Ada marries Frank, what task did she offer to help her father Arthur with when she was seeking to make peace with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What were the two pieces of advice given to Frank by the doctor in the state mental hospital who had taken an interest in his case?

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

4. 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?

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

6. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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

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