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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. Who was NOT one of the television evangelists Clyo watched fervently in her later years?
2. What prompted Janisse to write an essay about the rafting trip down the Altamaha?
3. When Milton told a story about catching an eight-foot-long indigo snake and it getting loose in his family's home, where did he say they eventually found it?
4. How old was Janisse when the family's boat sprung a leak on the Altamaha River and dumped everyone into the water?
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. 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?
2. 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?
3. 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)
4. How does Janisse draw parallels between the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Cracker people who inhabit her homeland?
5. 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?
6. What was Janisse's reaction to seeing her first indigo snake live in the wild?
7. How does the concept of determinism emerge in the final paragraph of the chapter entitled Poverty?
8. Who was the first person to spark Janisse's interest in the natural world and how did that person spark her interest?
9. Why did so many strangers from other places stop by the family's junkyard?
10. What story does Janisse use to show how careful and smart her grandmother Clyo was when trying to run her bootlegging operation without getting caught?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the characterization methods the author uses in order to depict her father Frank's personality and worldview.
Essay Topic 2
Examine the appendices included at the end of the memoir. Why does the author include them and what message is the author sending to the reader by encouraging their use?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the author's purpose for describing her love for the carnivorous pitcher plant in such great detail within the chapter entitled How the Heart Opens. What lessons does she learn from the plant, how does she apply these lessons within her life, and how does she use the depiction of her relationship with the pitcher plant to support the overall themes of the memoir?
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