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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. 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?
2. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?
3. What did Frank use to plug the holes in the flat-bottomed boat?
4. What article of clothing did Lee Ada make for Janisse that caused people to call her Little Red Riding Hood?
5. For what practice does the gopher tortoise require open sunny spots within their habitats?
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. 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)
3. How does the concept of determinism emerge in the final paragraph of the chapter entitled Poverty?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. 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?
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. 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?
9. How does Janisse draw parallels between the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Cracker people who inhabit her homeland?
10. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the scene of Janisse's session of night-rappelling down the cliff. How does she use her story of the event to support the larger themes within her memoir?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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