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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 Clyo caught bootlegging for the second time, causing her to stop the practice from that point on?
2. How far a distance do flatwood salamanders travel each way in order to reach the breeding grounds?
3. When Janisse handled the indigo snake that she and Milton had found, she writes that she handled the snake with care for two reasons. One was that she was precious. What was the other reason?
4. In what year was the red-cockaded woodpecker federally listed as endangered?
5. What book did Janisse read that caused her to look closely at an anthill in the junkyard and to simply the furnishings in her room?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does Janisse draw parallels between the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Cracker people who inhabit her homeland?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. How did Lee Ada's father Arthur feel about Frank's and Lee Ada's decision to elope?
7. 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?
8. What types of things did Lee Ada collect to satisfy her love for pretty things?
9. 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?
10. 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?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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