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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. Until what year was the Altamaha River the only mode of transportation for settlers in Appling County?
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?
3. What number child was Lee Ada within her family?
4. What color is the Bachman's sparrow?
5. What kind of creature did Beulah catch in her hands one day, much to the delight of Janisse and her siblings?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How did Lee Ada's father Arthur feel about Frank's and Lee Ada's decision to elope?
3. 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?
4. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?
5. How does the concept of determinism emerge in the final paragraph of the chapter entitled Poverty?
6. 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?
7. What types of things did Lee Ada collect to satisfy her love for pretty things?
8. What was Janisse's reaction to seeing her first indigo snake live in the wild?
9. What is ironic about Clyo's refusal to let Frank help her improve her health and her simultaneous belief that sending the little money she has to televangelists will make her well again?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of fear within the memoir. What is the author telling the reader about the nature of fear, about the harm that fear can inflict, and about the methods people can use to combat it?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the significance of the memoir's title. What does it mean and how does it contain all of the main themes put forth within the whole of the memoir?
Essay Topic 3
What parallels does Janisse Ray draw between a junkyard and the wilderness throughout the memoir? How does this unique viewpoint help to get across her message to the reader concerning environmentalism and the role humans ought to inhabit in relation to nature?
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