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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Frank do with the painted tortoise when the vendor finally released it?
(a) He dug a burrow for it in the forest and placed the tortoise inside.
(b) He took it to a veterinarian.
(c) He administered pain medication to it and set it free.
(d) He built a little house for it in his backyard.

2. 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 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.
(b) 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.
(c) When Charlie had bad bouts of arthritis, Clyo always made up a batch of her special salve and sent it to Charlie.
(d) 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.

3. What was the only way the children could tell if Frank thought they had done well at target practice on a particular day?
(a) If they overheard him bragging to one of his brothers about the children's performance.
(b) If he gave them all a quick hug at the end of practice.
(c) If they overheard him telling their mother Lee Ada.
(d) If he bought them ice cream on the way home.

4. What did Janisse's mother Lee Ada and her sister Kay call Janisse?
(a) Whiner.
(b) Worrywart.
(c) Workhorse.
(d) Tomboy.

5. Whose name did Clyo call out when she lay dying?
(a) Frank's.
(b) Lee Ada's.
(c) Charlie's.
(d) Janisse's.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the height of the red-cockaded woodpecker's population growth in the eastern United States, about how many were there?

2. Until what year was the Altamaha River the only mode of transportation for settlers in Appling County?

3. What evidence of the Lower Creek Indians' prior presence did Lee Ada find on Beulah's property when she was a little girl?

4. What is the main practice of gopher tortoises that helps other types of forest animals to survive?

5. In the chapter Beulahland, Janisse shares one of Beulah's recipes that was passed down to her for her hope chest. What dish is laid out in the recipe?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What aspect of her parents' relationship did Janisse feel jealousy about?

3. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?

4. 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?

5. Who was the first person to spark Janisse's interest in the natural world and how did that person spark her interest?

6. How does the concept of determinism emerge in the final paragraph of the chapter entitled Poverty?

7. If she had any spare time, what did Janisse always want to do and how did her mother feel about that pastime?

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. What was Janisse's reaction to seeing her first indigo snake live in the wild?

10. Why did Janisse choose to call her father Frank rather than the sheriff or the wildlife officer or someone else when she could not talk the fruit vendor into turning over the distressed tortoise he had just painted with gold and silver paint?

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