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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though Janisse had never seen an indigo snake in the wild until she was an adult, her older friend Milton said that he had seen them before. In what context had he seen them?
(a) In the wild twenty or thirty years prior.
(b) Wrapped around women in carnival sideshows.
(c) In aquariums.
(d) In reptile zoos.

2. What is the main practice of gopher tortoises that helps other types of forest animals to survive?
(a) They dig burrows in which other animals take refuge.
(b) They eat seeds that cannot be digested by other animals until they have already passed through the tortoise's digestive system.
(c) They are involved in a symbiotic relationship with a particular parasite that is a favorite food of many forest birds.
(d) They dig burrows in which predators become trapped when chasing their prey.

3. Which state designated the gopher tortoise as their state reptile in 1989?
(a) Florida.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Texas.

4. Where did Janisse get pants to wear on the rafting trip, her very first time wearing pants due to her family's religious convictions?
(a) In one of the cars in the junkyard.
(b) A local thrift store.
(c) The dump.
(d) She borrowed them from her brother Dell.

5. Indigo snakes have a four-month mating season once a year. When is it?
(a) November through February.
(b) December through March.
(c) October through January.
(d) June through September.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Janisse's mother Lee Ada and her sister Kay call Janisse?

2. What is the average amount of rainfall in Appling County, Georgia?

3. Though she patiently and valiantly fought to bring Frank back to mental health, what happened to finally convince Lee Ada that Frank needed to check in to a mental hospital?

4. How old was Frank when Charlie first talked him into partnering with him in the wrecking yard business?

5. In what year did Clyo finally succumb to her various maladies?

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