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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. What was the only way the children could tell if Frank thought they had done well at target practice on a particular day?
2. What is the main practice of gopher tortoises that helps other types of forest animals to survive?
3. What reason does Janisse give for the indigo snake's dwindling numbers?
4. What did Frank use to plug the holes in the flat-bottomed boat?
5. How many children did Clyo and Charlie have together?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How did Lee Ada's father Arthur feel about Frank's and Lee Ada's decision to elope?
3. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?
4. How does the concept of determinism emerge in the final paragraph of the chapter entitled Poverty?
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. 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?
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. Who was the first person to spark Janisse's interest in the natural world and how did that person spark her interest?
9. How does Janisse draw parallels between the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Cracker people who inhabit her homeland?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the chapter entitled Light, Janisse Ray uses white space to surround the words "Evolve. Adapt. Survive." What is her purpose for setting these words apart from the rest of the text and how do these words relate to the many themes displayed within her memoir?
Essay Topic 2
What is the significance of Janisse Ray's story in the chapter entitled Leaving about the first time she saw the word environmentalism in action? What lessons did she learn that day--about herself and about the world? And what lessons does she hope to teach the reader while relaying her account of this event?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the author's infrequent and therefore prominent use of second person within her memoir. What is the context for each of these instances and what effect does the author intend these usages of second person language to have upon the reader?
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