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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 did Lee Ada do for a time after graduating from high school?
2. Which state designated the gopher tortoise as their state reptile in 1989?
3. How old was Janisse when her maternal grandfather Arthur died of cancer?
4. How old was Janisse when the family's boat sprung a leak on the Altamaha River and dumped everyone into the water?
5. What did Janisse's mother Lee Ada and her sister Kay call Janisse?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was the first person to spark Janisse's interest in the natural world and how did that person spark her interest?
2. How does Janisse draw parallels between the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Cracker people who inhabit her homeland?
3. 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?
4. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?
5. What was Janisse's reaction to seeing her first indigo snake live in the wild?
6. How does Janisse describe the type of knowledge she had by the time she left home versus the type of knowledge she lacked at that time?
7. What types of things did Lee Ada collect to satisfy her love for pretty things?
8. 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?
9. 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?
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
Look for instances within the memoir that list stereotypes people from areas other than the southern United States have in their minds about residents of the South. What passages and incidents are used by the author in order to portray these stereotypes and what incidents does she use to dispel these myths for the reader?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the role that mental illness plays within the course of Janisse Ray's memoir. What does the reader learn about mental illness, the havoc it can wreak within a family, and how it can also bring a family closer together? How is the mental illness running throughout her family shown to have shaped who Janisse is, even though she herself does not exhibit signs of mental illness?
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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