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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?
2. What is the average amount of rainfall in Appling County, Georgia?
3. Indigo snakes have a four-month mating season once a year. When is it?
4. What was the name of the closest mental hospital to the Rays' home, where many family members and neighbors of theirs spent time?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What aspect of her parents' relationship did Janisse feel jealousy about?
2. What types of things did Lee Ada collect to satisfy her love for pretty things?
3. How did Lee Ada's father Arthur feel about Frank's and Lee Ada's decision to elope?
4. If she had any spare time, what did Janisse always want to do and how did her mother feel about that pastime?
5. What actions does Janisse relate taking in order to show how interested she was in anything advertised as free in her childhood?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. How does Janisse draw parallels between the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Cracker people who inhabit her homeland?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the structure the author uses to construct Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and discuss what her purpose is for structuring the memoir as she does. What advantages does it give her and how does it align with the messages she is trying to get across to the reader?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the significance of the memoir's title. What does it mean and how does it contain all of the main themes put forth within the whole of the memoir?
Essay Topic 3
Despite the dire situations discussed within Janisse Ray's narrative, the theme of hope emerges again and again. Find instances of this theme's appearance throughout the memoir and explain how each instance is used by the author in order to demonstrate the value of hope when trying to solve environmental and social problems.
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