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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. Where did Janisse get pants to wear on the rafting trip, her very first time wearing pants due to her family's religious convictions?
2. Which state designated the gopher tortoise as their state reptile in 1989?
3. At what store did Beulah shop every Friday, rain or shine?
4. What number child was Lee Ada within her family?
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 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?
2. What were some elements of Frank's childhood that belie the poverty his family suffered during the aftershocks of the stock market crash in 1929?
3. What actions does Janisse relate taking in order to show how interested she was in anything advertised as free in her childhood?
4. 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?
5. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?
6. 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?
7. What types of things did Lee Ada collect to satisfy her love for pretty things?
8. 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?
9. If she had any spare time, what did Janisse always want to do and how did her mother feel about that pastime?
10. How did Janisse feel about her mother when she was a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of scene in which Janisse's grandfather Charlie leads Janisse to his secret copse of huckleberries? How does the author use this event as a metaphor for a particular piece of her worldview and what message does she send to the reader through her relaying of this event?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the chapter entitled Built By Fire, discussing at least three different literary devices the author uses within the chapter and stating the main message the author is sending to the reader within the chapter.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the theme of fear within the memoir. What is the author telling the reader about the nature of fear, about the harm that fear can inflict, and about the methods people can use to combat it?
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