2. 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?
(a) Because she was four feet long and the size of her scared Janisse.
(b) Because she could inflict a severe bite if she sense fear or became afraid.
(c) Because she appeared to be pregnant.
(d) Because she appeared to have just eaten a relatively large meal.

3. 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.

4. 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) Wrapped around women in carnival sideshows.
(b) In reptile zoos.
(c) In aquariums.
(d) In the wild twenty or thirty years prior.

5. During the time Clyo worked in the cotton fields, what was one health problem from which she did NOT suffer?
(a) Gout.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) A lost kidney.
(d) Bad knees.

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

7. Though she did not speak to Charlie for 25 years after they split up, what did Clyo do that showed she still cared about him?
(a) When Charlie came to visit the children still living in Clyo's home, Clyo always left the house but left Charlie one of their love notes from the past.
(b) When Charlie stopped in to the Greasy Spoon Cafe, she always sent him a little note on his napkin when she sent his food out from the kitchen.
(c) When Charlie came to visit their grown son across the street, she always fixed him a plate of food and sent another of their children over to give it to him.
(d) When Charlie had bad bouts of arthritis, Clyo always made up a batch of her special salve and sent it to Charlie.

8. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?
(a) Tammy Faye Baker.
(b) Billy Graham.
(c) Jerry Falwell.
(d) Jimmy Swaggart.

9. In what year did Clyo finally succumb to her various maladies?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1972.

10. The author writes that although the families in her area would have defended the land to the death, they lacked three things that would have allowed them to care about the actual health of its natural communities. What were those three things?
(a) Freedom, money, and time.
(b) Money, space, and time.
(c) Means, education, and ease.
(d) Time, understanding, and leisure.

11. What forbidden activity do Janisse and her siblings get to do when they are at Beulah's house?
(a) They get to celebrate the childrens' birthdays.
(b) They get to wear bathing suits while swimming.
(c) They get to watch television.
(d) They get to wear summer clothes.

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

13. At the time of the memoir's writing, about many red-cockaded woodpeckers were left in the United States, most of them relegated to Florida?
(a) 4,500.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 7,500.
(d) 3,000.

14. Janisse insists that she could never cook, telling a story about what happened the scant two times she tried to bake cookies. What happened each time?
(a) She forgot to add sugar.
(b) She forgot about them and they burned up.
(c) She added too much yeast and they began to flow out through the cracks in the oven door.
(d) She did not cook them long enough and served them raw.

15. What is the average amount of rainfall in Appling County, Georgia?
(a) 30 inches.
(b) 60 inches.
(c) 50 inches.
(d) 40 inches.