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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. How old was Lee Ada when she married Frank?
2. At the height of the red-cockaded woodpecker's population growth in the eastern United States, about how many were there?
3. Until what year was the Altamaha River the only mode of transportation for settlers in Appling County?
4. What does the name Lucia mean?
5. How many children did Clyo and Charlie have together?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the concept of determinism emerge in the final paragraph of the chapter entitled Poverty?
2. 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?
3. 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)
4. What actions does Janisse relate taking in order to show how interested she was in anything advertised as free in her childhood?
5. What types of things did Lee Ada collect to satisfy her love for pretty things?
6. If she had any spare time, what did Janisse always want to do and how did her mother feel about that pastime?
7. 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?
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 story does Janisse use to show how careful and smart her grandmother Clyo was when trying to run her bootlegging operation without getting caught?
10. What aspect of her parents' relationship did Janisse feel jealousy about?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Examine the appendices included at the end of the memoir. Why does the author include them and what message is the author sending to the reader by encouraging their use?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the significance of Janisse Ray's abject rejection of her great-grandfather Pun's advice to not "take more on your heart than you can shake off on your heels." How does her rejection of this maxim relate to the larger themes within the memoir?
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