Ecology of a Cracker Childhood Test | Final Test - Medium

Janisse Ray
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood Test | Final Test - Medium

Janisse Ray
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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 sign of distress did Janisse notice when looking at the painted tortoise?
(a) It was making a faint wheezing sound.
(b) It was drooling from its nose and mouth.
(c) It had turned onto its back.
(d) It had pulled its head into its shell.

2. When the author writes that Frank would often help "a family like the Joads" by feeding them or finding candy for their children when they stopped in to get a part to fix their broken-down car, what novel is she referencing?
(a) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
(b) The Stranger by Albert Camus.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
(d) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

3. Why did the welfare checks for Clyo and her children stop coming a few years after she and Charlie split up?
(a) Because Charlie somehow changed the listed family address at the welfare office.
(b) Because all of the children began working odd jobs to help support the family.
(c) Because Clyo had started to make more money in the cotton fields.
(d) Because when the welfare office contacted Charlie to sign some papers, he said he would support the children himself if Clyo would send them down to him in Florida.

4. Who fell overboard when the family visited the houseboat of another local family, prompting Frank to save the person?
(a) Lee Ada.
(b) Janisse.
(c) Steve.
(d) Dell.

5. After Lee Ada marries Frank, what task did she offer to help her father Arthur with when she was seeking to make peace with him?
(a) She offered to type up the manuscript of his memoirs.
(b) She offered to help him crop tobacco.
(c) She offered to wash the dishes after supper.
(d) She offered to help him fix the roof on the house.

Short Answer 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?

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?

3. What was the punishment if Janisse or one of her siblings disobeyed Frank's instructions while they were left alone in the house?

4. What kind of road side stand did Janisse stop at when she saw that a vendor had painted a gopher tortoise with gold and silver paint?

5. What threat did Janisse use to try to get the vendor to let her take the painted tortoise to safety?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Janisse draw parallels between the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Cracker people who inhabit her homeland?

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

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

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

5. What were the two pieces of advice given to Frank by the doctor in the state mental hospital who had taken an interest in his case?

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. What is the main characteristic present in indigo snakes that led to much of their endangered status, in addition to the fact that they use endangered gopher tortoises' burrows as shelter?

10. What are the special characteristics of living near longleaf pines that cause the lives of the animals that live near them to be "woven together?" (141)

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